Length of guanosine homopolymeric repeats modulates promoter activity of subfamily II tpr genes of Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 289-301

  Giacani, Lorenzo ^b   Lukehart, Sheila ^b   Centurion Lara, Arturo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Syphilis; tpr genes; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANOSINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; START CODON; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 35148814341     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2007.00303.x     Document Type: Article

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