Virulence regulator AphB enhances toxR transcription in Vibrio cholerae

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Xu, Xiao ^a   Stern, Andrew M ^b   Liu, Zhi ^b   Kan, Biao ^a   Zhu, Jun ^b  

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN APHB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APHB PROTEIN, VIBRIO CHOLERAE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TCPP PROTEIN, VIBRIO CHOLERAE; TOXR PROTEIN, VIBRIO CHOLERAE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; TOXR GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PROMOTER REGION; VIRULENCE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 74849115224     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-3     Document Type: Article

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