VceR negatively regulates the vceCAB MDR efflux operon and positively regulates its own synthesis in Vibrio cholerae 569B

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 888-900

  Alatoom, Adnan A ^a   Aburto, Ricardo ^b   Hamood, Abdul N ^a   Colmer Hamood, Jane A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; DNA binding; Multidrug resistance efflux pump; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; GENE EXPRESSION;

AUTOREGULATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE EFFLUX PUMP; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

DNA;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; LUCIFERASE;

BACTERIUM; CARBONYL COMPOUND; CHLOROPHENOL; CYANIDE; DNA; DRUG RESISTANCE;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; CELL CYCLE; DNA BINDING; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ETHIDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OPERON; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE 569B;

EID: 35648993154     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W07-054     Document Type: Article

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