Identification and characterization of a Vibrio mimicus gene encoding the heme/hemoglobin receptor

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 606-617

  Tanabe, Tomotaka ^a   Funahashi, Tatsuya ^a   Moon, Yong Hwa ^b   Tamai, Eiji ^a   Yamamoto, Shigeo ^a  

^a MATSUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heme hemoglobin receptor gene; Iron source; Iron repressible outer membrane protein; Vibrio mimicus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HEME; HEME RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN RECEPTOR; IRON; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN LYSR; PROTEIN MHUB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; MHUA GENE; MHUB GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIBRIO MIMICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEME; HEMOGLOBINS; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO MIMICUS;

VIBRIO MIMICUS;

EID: 77957936057     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2010.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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