Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of the GmaR antirepressor governs temperature-dependent control of flagellar motility in listeria monocytogenes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 421-435

  Kamp, Heather D ^a   Higgins, Darren E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEGU PROTEIN; GMAR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BINDING SITE; CILIARY MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PURIFICATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; OCTODON DEGUS;

EID: 70349897066     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06874.x     Document Type: Article

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