LrhA positively controls the expression of the locus of enterocyte effacement genes in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli by differential regulation of their master regulators PchA and PchB

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1393-1341

  Honda, Naoko ^a,b   Iyoda, Sunao ^a   Yamamoto, Shouji ^a   Terajima, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; LYSR HOMOLOGUE A PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESPB; PROTEIN PCHA; PROTEIN PCHB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT GENE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 72049098202     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06937.x     Document Type: Article

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