Regulation of virulence gene transcripts by the francisella novicida orphan response regulator PmrA: Role of phosphorylation and evidence of MglA/SspA Interaction

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2189-2198

  Bell, Brian L ^a,b   Mohapatra, Nrusingh P ^a   Gunn, John S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; MGLA PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; RNA POLYMERASE; SSPA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA NOVICIDA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN KINASES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TULAREMIA; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77951220450     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00021-10     Document Type: Article

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