The essentiality and involvement of Streptococcus intermedius histone-like DNA-binding protein in bacterial viability and normal growth

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1268-1282

  Liu, Dali ^a,b   Yumoto, Hiromichi ^a   Murakami, Keiji ^a   Hirota, Katsuhiko ^a   Ono, Tsuneko ^a   Nagamune, Hideaki ^a   Kayama, Shizuo ^a   Matsuo, Takashi ^a   Miyake, Yoichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYTOKINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; HU PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HISTONES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 43749117518     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06232.x     Document Type: Article

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