Identification of potential CepR regulated genes using a cep box motif-based search of the Burkholderia cenocepacia genome

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chambers, Catherine E ^a   Lutter, Erika I ^a   Visser, Michelle B ^a   Law, Peggy P Y ^a   Sokol, Pamela A ^a  

^a Health Sciences Centre Calgary   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CEPL GENE; CEPR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; IRON TRANSPORT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; ZMPA GENE;

BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33846969224     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-6-104     Document Type: Article

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