Global regulators and environmental adaptation in Gram-negative pathogens

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 47-50

  Dorman, C J ^a  

^a Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DNA supercoiling; Escherichia coli; Fis; H NS; Nucleoid associated protein; Salmonella enterica; Serovar Typhimurium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 59649122303     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02684.x     Document Type: Review

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