ppGpp with DksA controls gene expression in the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli through activation of two virulence regulatory genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 194-205

  Nakanishi, Noriko ^a   Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Ogura, Yoshitoshi ^b   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^b   Tashiro, Kosuke ^c   Kuhara, Satoru ^c   Sugimoto, Nakaba ^a   Tobe, Toru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DKSA GENE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH CURVE; LER GENE; LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PCH GENE; PPGPP GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RELA GENE; SPOT GENE; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; CACO-2 CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745221184     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05217.x     Document Type: Article

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