Rational design of an artificial genetic switch: Co-option of the H-NS-repressed proU Operon by the VirB virulence master regulator

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 5950-5960

  Kane, Kelly A ^a   Dorman, Charles J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; VIRB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; GENE SWITCHING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OSMOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROU OPERON;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 80055064471     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05557-11     Document Type: Article

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