Autoactivation of the AggR regulator of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli in vitro and in vivo

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 344-355

  Morin, Nicholas ^a   Tirling, Chelsea ^b   Ivison, Sabine M ^b   Kaur, Ajinder Pal ^a   Nataro, James P ^a   Steiner, Theodore S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AggR; Bioluminescence; Diarrhea; Enteroaggregative; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ARAC LIKE REGULATOR PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEOTIDE; PLASMID DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77949362786     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2009.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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