RpoE1, an extracytoplasmic function sigma factor, is a repressor of the flagellar system in Brucella melitensis

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1263-1268

  Ferooz, Jonathan ^b   Lemaire, Julien ^a   Delory, Marie ^a   de Bolle, Xavier ^a   Letesson, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPOE1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAF GENE; FLBT GENE; FLGE GENE; FLIC GENE; FLIF GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR;

BRUCELLA MELITENSIS;

EID: 79955765111     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.044875-0     Document Type: Article

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