Transcriptional regulation of the virR operon of the intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 5082-5089

  Byrne, Gavin A ^a,b   Russell, Dean A ^a,b   Chen, Xiaoxiao ^a   Meijer, Wim G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IDA Business Park   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CODON; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; ORF5 GENE; ORF8 GENE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PH; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RNA STABILITY; STREPTOMYCES; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRR GENE; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RNA STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MYCOBACTERIUM; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 34447550709     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00431-07     Document Type: Article

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