EbfC (YbaB) is a new type of bacterial nucleoid-associated protein and a global regulator of gene expression in the Lyme disease spirochete

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3395-3406

  Jutras, Brandon L ^a   Bowman, Amy ^a   Brissette, Catherine A ^a,b   Adams, Claire A ^a   Verma, Ashutosh ^a   Chenail, Alicia M ^a   Stevenson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOID ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN EBFC; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LYME DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI;

EID: 84864014078     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00252-12     Document Type: Article

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