Continuous control of flagellar gene expression by the σ28-FlgM regulatory circuit in Salmonella enterica

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 264-278

  Saini, Supreet ^a   Floess, Emily ^a   Aldridge, Christine ^b   Brown, Jonathon ^b   Aldridge, Phillip D ^b   Rao, Christopher V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGMA FACTOR; TIME FACTORS;

SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 78650237702     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07444.x     Document Type: Article

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