Autogenous transcriptional regulation of the regA gene, encoding an AraC-like, essential virulence regulator in Citrobacter rodentium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1777-1782

  Tan, Aimee ^a   Yang, Ji ^a,b   Tauschek, Marija ^a,b   Praszkier, Judyta ^a   Robins Browne, Roy M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGA GENE; REGB GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

CITROBACTER RODENTIUM;

EID: 79952779355     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01224-10     Document Type: Article

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