Identification of a new promoter for the response regulator rcsB expression in salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 300, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-173

  Pescaretti, María De Las Mercedes ^a   Morero, Roberto ^a   Delgado, Mónica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Gene transcription; Rcs system; RcsB; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 70350228652     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01771.x     Document Type: Article

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