New insights into the Enterococcus faecalis CroRS two-component system obtained using a differential-display random arbitrarily primed PCR approach

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3738-3741

  Le Breton, Yoann ^a,b   Muller, Cécile ^a   Auffray, Yanick ^a   Rincé, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; GELS;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GEL RETARDATION ASSAYS; OPERON ENCODING; TWO COMPONENT SYSTEM;

MICROBIOLOGY;

PRIMER DNA;

ASSAY; BACTERIUM; COMMENSAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRORS GENE; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GLNQ GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PYRAB GENE; RPLC GENE; SALB GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 34249901823     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00390-07     Document Type: Article

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