Identification of neisserial DNA binding components

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 852-862

  Lång, Emma ^a,b   Haugen, Kristine ^b   Fleckenstein, Burkhard ^a   Homberset, Håvard ^a   Frye, Stephan A ^a,b   Ambur, Ole Herman ^a,b   Tønjum, Tone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; DNA; PROTEIN FTSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; PILQ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METABOLISM; DNA TRANSFER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENINGITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEPTICEMIA; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 64049098951     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.022640-0     Document Type: Article

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