Identification and functional analysis of CT069 as a novel transcriptional regulator in Chlamydia

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 6123-6131

  Akers, Johnny C ^a   HoDac, HoangMinh ^b   Lathrop, Richard H ^a,b   Tan, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN TROR; PROTEIN YTGC; PROTEIN YTGR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CT069; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; OPERON; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 80655125470     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05976-11     Document Type: Article

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