HlyU acts as an H-NS antirepressor in the regulation of the RTX toxin gene essential for the virulence of the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus CMCP6

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 491-505

  Liu, Moqing ^a   Naka, Hiroaki ^a   Crosa, Jorge H ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; CMCP6 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HLYU GENE; HNS GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RTXA1 GENE; UPREGULATION; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRULENCE; VIRUS GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRULENCE;

VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 64149113051     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06664.x     Document Type: Article

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