Regulation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxA, regA and ptxR genes by the iron-starvation sigma factor PvdS under reduced levels of oxygen

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4219-4233

  Gaines, Jennifer M ^a,b   Carty, Nancy L ^a   Tiburzi, Federica ^c   Davinic, Marko ^a   Visca, Paolo ^c   Colmer Hamood, Jane A ^a   Hamood, Abdul N ^a  

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

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; OXYGEN; PAPAIN; PROTEIN PTXR; PROTEIN REGA; PROTEIN TOXA; PYOVERDINE; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADP RIBOSE TRANSFERASES; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; EXOTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; IRON; OXYGEN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 37449005830     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/011338-0     Document Type: Article

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