Deletion of a previously uncharacterized flagellar-hook-length control gene fliK modulates the σ54-dependent regulon in Campylobacter jejuni

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3099-3111

  Kamal, Nahid ^a,e   Dorrell, Nick ^b   Jagannathan, Aparna ^a,f   Turner, Susan M ^a   Constantinidou, Chrystala ^a   Studholme, David J ^c   Marsden, Gemma ^d,g   Hinds, Jason ^d,g   Laing, Ken G ^d   Wren, Brendan W ^b   Penn, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f BBSRC Institute for Animal Diseases   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLGE PROTEIN; FLGR PROTEIN; FLIK PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR FLIA; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 34948837886     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/007401-0     Document Type: Article

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