Characterization of the mrgRS locus of the opportunistic pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei: Temperature regulates the expression of a two-component signal transduction system

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mahfouz, Magdy E ^a   Grayson, T Hilton ^b   Dance, David A B ^c   Gilpin, Martyn L ^b  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LANOLIN ALCOHOL; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN MRGR; PROTEIN MRGS; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CELL LYSATE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MELIOIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SALINITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; THERMOREGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA PLANTARII; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; BURKHOLDERIA VIETNAMIENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33748352341     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-6-70     Document Type: Article

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