Insights into the complex regulation of rpoS in Borrelia burgdorferi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 277-293

  Burtnick, Mary N ^a   Downey, Jennifer S ^b   Brett, Paul J ^a   Boylan, Julie A ^a   Frye, Jonathan G ^c   Hoover, Timothy R ^d   Gherardini, Frank C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL DENSITY; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN KINASES; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; TEMPERATURE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447328417     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05813.x     Document Type: Article

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