Functional impact of mutational activation on the Listeria monocytogenes central virulence regulator PrfA

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3579-3589

  Miner, Maurine D ^a,b   Porta, Gary C ^a,b,d   Freitag, Nancy E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATOR PRFA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 57349119882     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/021063-0     Document Type: Article

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