Global regulation by horizontally transferred regulators establishes the pathogenicity of Escherichia coli

DNA Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-23

  Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyahara, Akira ^a   Oshima, Taku ^b   Tashiro, Kosuke ^c   Ogura, Yoshitoshi ^d   Kuhara, Satoru ^c   Ogasawara, Naotake ^b   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^d   Tobe, Toru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

A E pathogen; Captured genome; DNA binding protein; Transcriptional regulation; Virulence gene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INTESTINE CELL; LEE GENE; LER GENE; NONHUMAN; PCH GENE; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 73549089233     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: 17561663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsm028     Document Type: Article

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