Modulation of the mtrCDE-encoded efflux pump gene complex of Neisseria meningitidis due to a Correia element insertion sequence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 731-741

  Rouquette Loughlin, Corinne E ^a,b   Balthazar, Jacqueline T ^a,b   Hill, Stuart A ^c   Shafer, William M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTARABINE; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; PROTEIN MTRA; PROTEIN MTRC; PROTEIN MTRR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CORREIA ELEMENT; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INVERTED REPEAT; MULTIPLE TRANSFERABLE RESISTANCE GENE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 7644221856     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04299.x     Document Type: Article

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