Transcriptional regulation of the ecp operon by EcpR, IHF, and H-NS in attaching and effacing Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 5020-5033

  Martínez Santos, Verónica I ^a   Medrano López, Abraham ^a   Saldaña, Zeus ^b   Girón, Jorge A ^b   Puente, José L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84866412648     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00915-12     Document Type: Article

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