Elucidation of the regulon and cis-acting regulatory element of HrpB, the AraC-type regulator of a plant pathogen-like type III secretion system in Burkholderia pseudomallei

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1991-2001

  Lipscomb, Lyla ^a   Schell, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAC PROTEIN; ARAC TYPE REGULATORY PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; PILIN; POLYKETIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM TYPE III; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RALSTONIA; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; XANTHOMONAS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 79955440695     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01379-10     Document Type: Article

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