Heme rescues a two-component system Leptospira biflexa mutant

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Louvel, Hélène ^a   Betton, Jean Michel ^a   Picardeau, Mathieu ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; HEME; HEMIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BIFLEXA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BIFLEXA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEME; HEMIN; LEPTOSPIRA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 40749160947     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-25     Document Type: Article

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