Virulence regulator EspR of mycobacterium tuberculosis is a nucleoid-associated protein

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Blasco, Benjamin ^a   Chen, Jeffrey M ^a   Hartkoorn, Ruben ^a   Sala, Claudia ^a   Uplekar, Swapna ^a,b   Rougemont, Jacques ^a,b   Pojer, Florence ^a   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOID ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESPR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; H NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; H-NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH DISORDER; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULON; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; REGULATOR GENE; VIRULENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, REGULATOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84861210509     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002621     Document Type: Article

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