Trans locus inhibitors limit concomitant polysaccharide synthesis in the human gut symbiont Bacteroides fragilis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 11976-11980

  Chatzidaki Livanis, Maria ^a   Weinacht, Katja G ^a,b   Comstock, Laurie E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antitermination; Microbiota; upxY; upxZ

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UPXY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UPXZ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SYMBIONT; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; METAGENOME; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

EID: 77955345887     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005039107     Document Type: Article

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