Transcriptional slippage controls production of type III secretion apparatus components in Shigella flexneri

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1460-1468

  Penno, Christophe ^a,b   Hachani, Abderrahman ^c,d   Biskri, Latefa ^c   Sansonetti, Philippe ^a,b   Allaoui, Abdelmounaïm ^c   Parsot, Claude ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 33750686268     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05456.x     Document Type: Article

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