Purification and characterization of the repressor of the shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophage 933W: DNA binding, gene regulation, and autocleavage

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 7659-7669

  Koudelka, Astrid P ^a   Hufnagel, Lisa A ^a   Koudelka, Gerald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE CONTROL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS INDUCTION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE 933W; ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 7744244887     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.22.7659-7669.2004     Document Type: Article

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