Regulators of expression of the oligopeptide permease A proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2653-2659

  Medrano, Melisa S ^a   Ding, Yanpeng ^b   Wang, Xing Guo ^c   Lu, Peng ^d   Coburn, Jenifer ^a   Hu, Linden T ^a,e  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE PERMEASE A; PERMEASE; PROTEIN BOSR; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EBFC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPPA4 GENE; OPPA5 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TICKS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34147117599     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01760-06     Document Type: Article

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