Investigation of the human pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii under iron limiting conditions

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Eijkelkamp, Bart A ^a   Hassan, Karl A ^b   Paulsen, Ian T ^b   Brown, Melissa H ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; SIDEROPHORE; BACTERIAL RNA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGION;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IRON; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIDEROPHORES;

EID: 79951852932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-126     Document Type: Article

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