The iron-repressed, AraC-like regulator MpeR activates expression of fetA in neisseria gonorrhoeae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4764-4776

  Hollander, Aimee ^a   Mercante, Alexandra Dubon ^b   Shafer, William M ^b,c   Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIHYDROXYBENZOYLSERINE; DNA; FERRIC SALMOCHELIN; FERRIENTEROCHELIN; IRON; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN FETA; PROTEIN MPER; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA; ENTEROCHELIN; FRPB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TONB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IRON DEPLETION; IRON TRANSPORT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CYTOPLASM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; UPREGULATION;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PERIPLASM; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84855724118     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05806-11     Document Type: Article

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