The early gene product EUO is a transcriptional repressor that selectively regulates promoters of Chlamydia late genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1097-1107

  Rosario, Christopher J ^a   Tan, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIVISION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUO GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; OMCAB GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAE;

EID: 84865175271     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08077.x     Document Type: Article

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