OxyR activation in Porphyromonas gingivalis in response to a hemin-limited environment

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3471-3480

  Xie, Hua ^a   Zheng, Cunge ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HEMIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

CULTURE MEDIA; DNA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMIN; IRON; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84867610361     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00680-12     Document Type: Article

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