Comparative analysis of FimB and FimE recombinase activity

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4138-4149

  Holden, Nicola ^a   Blomfield, Ian C ^b   Uhlin, Bernt Eric ^c   Totsika, Makrina ^a   Kulasekara, Don Hemantha ^d   Gally, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; PROTEIN FIMB; PROTEIN FIME; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; INVERTED REPEAT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PYELONEPHRITIS; REGULATOR GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 37449010595     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/010363-0     Document Type: Article

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