HlyU is a positive regulator of hemolysin expression in Vibrio anguillarum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4779-4789

  Li, Ling ^a,b   Mou, Xiangyu ^a   Nelson, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; HEMOLYSIN; SPACER DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HEMOLYSIS; HLYU GENE; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; FISHES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 80052527806     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01033-10     Document Type: Article

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