Transcriptional regulation of subclass 5b fimbriae

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bodero, Maria D ^a   Harden, Elizabeth A ^a   Munson, George P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; RNS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; RNS GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 55349133086     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-180     Document Type: Article

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