Pivotal role of the Francisella tularensis heat-shock sigma factor RpoH

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2560-2572

  Grall, Nathalie ^a,b   Livny, Jonathan ^c   Waldor, Matthew ^c,d   Barel, Monique ^a,b   Charbit, Alain ^a,b   Meibom, Karin L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE PROETIN GRPE; CHAPERONIN; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 40; PROTEIN CLPB; PROTEIN DNAJ; PROTEIN DNAK; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPOH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HEAT STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS;

EID: 69949141186     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.029058-0     Document Type: Article

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