Novel roles of LeuO in transcription regulation of E. coli genome: Antagonistic interplay with the universal silencer H-NS

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 378-397

  Shimada, Tomohiro ^a   Bridier, Arnaud ^b   Briandet, Romain ^b   Ishihama, Akira ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; LEUCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEUO GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80053951751     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07818.x     Document Type: Article

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