Identification of a hypervariable region containing new Legionella pneumophila Icm/Dot translocated substrates by using the conserved icmQ regulatory signature

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4581-4591

  Zusman, Tal ^a   Degtyar, Elena ^a   Segal, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HOST CELL; ICM/DOT TRANSLOCATED SUBSTRATE; ICMQ GENE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

EID: 53649102079     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00337-08     Document Type: Article

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