Long-range transcriptional control of an operon necessary for virulence-critical ESX-1 secretion in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2307-2320

  Hunt, Debbie M ^a   Sweeney, Nathan P ^a,c   Mori, Luisa ^a   Whalan, Rachael H ^a,d   Comas, Iñaki ^a,e   Norman, Laura ^a   Cortes, Teresa ^a   Arnvig, Kristine B ^a   Davis, Elaine O ^a   Stapleton, Melanie R ^b   Green, Jeffrey ^b   Buxton, Roger S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Centre for Public Health Research   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN A; ESPR TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ESX 1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84861215259     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00142-12     Document Type: Article

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