Lsr2 of Mycobacterium represents a novel class of H-NS-like proteins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7052-7059

  Gordon, Blair R G ^a   Imperial, Robin ^a   Wang, Linru ^a   Navarre, William Wiley ^a   Liu, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCOSIDE; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; PROTEIN LSR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BINDING KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 55749090843     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00733-08     Document Type: Article

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