The response regulator RcsB activates expression of Mat fimbriae in meningitic Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3475-3485

  Lehti, Timo A ^a   Heikkinen, Johanna ^a,b   Korhonen, Timo K ^a   Westerlund Wikström, Benita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ORION CORPORATION   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; RCSB PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAT GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSPOSON;

BIOFILMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84861866288     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06596-11     Document Type: Article

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