Expression of the meningococcal adhesin NadA is controlled by a transcriptional regulator of the MarR family

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1054-1067

  Schielke, Stephanie ^a   Huebner, Claudia ^a   Spatz, Carolin ^a   Nägele, Virginie ^b   Ackermann, Nikolaus ^b   Frosch, Matthias ^a   Kurzai, Oliver ^a   Schubert Unkmeir, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ADHESIN NADA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; PROTEIN NMFARAB; PROTEIN NMFARR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN MARR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FARR GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 65549157480     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06710.x     Document Type: Article

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