Identification of a chitin-induced small RNA that regulates translation of the tfoX gene, encoding a positive regulator of natural competence in vibrio cholerae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1953-1965

  Yamamoto, Shouji ^a   Izumiya, Hidemasa ^a   Mitobe, Jiro ^a   Morita, Masatomo ^a   Arakawa, Eiji ^a   Ohnishi, Makoto ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHITIN; DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; TFOR PROTEIN; TFOX PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHITIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC TESTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 79955445179     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01340-10     Document Type: Article

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