Integration of two essential virulence modulating signals at the Erwinia chrysanthemi pel gene promoters: A role for Fis in the growth-phase regulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1491-1505

  Lautier, Thomas ^a,b,c,d   Blot, Nicolas ^e   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^f   Nasser, William ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

^f JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; IRON; PECTATE LYASE; PECTIN; PLANT EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH REGULATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PECTOBACTERIUM CHRYSANTHEMI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI;

EID: 36549060027     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06010.x     Document Type: Article

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