YtxR, a conserved LysR-like regulator that induces expression of genes encoding a putative ADP-ribosyltransferase toxin homologue in Yersinia enterocolitica

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 8033-8043

  Axler DiPerte, Grace L ^a   Miller, Virginia L ^b   Darwin, Andrew J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HYBRID PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PROTEIN LYSR; PROTEIN YTXR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FUSION GENE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LACZ GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; OPERON; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YTXAB GENE; YTXR GENE;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 33751585388     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01159-06     Document Type: Article

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