Transcriptional regulation of the heme binding protein gene family of Bartonella quintana is accomplished by a novel promoter element and iron response regulator

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 4373-4385

  Battisti, James M ^a   Smitherman, Laura S ^a   Sappington, Kate N ^a   Parrow, Nermi L ^a   Raghavan, Rahul ^a   Minnick, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HEME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; RHIZOBIALES; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEDICULUS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34548491865     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00497-07     Document Type: Article

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