The response regulator CpxR directly regulates expression of several Legionella pneumophila icm/dot components as well as new translocated substrates

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1985-1996

  Altman, Efrat ^a   Segal, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOST CELL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 40449126813     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01493-07     Document Type: Article

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