Fur Is a Repressor of Biofilm Formation in Yersinia pestis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Fengjun ^a,b   Gao, He ^a,c   Zhang, Yiquan ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Fang, Nan ^a   Tan, Yafang ^a   Guo, Zhaobiao ^a   Xia, Peiyuan ^b   Zhou, Dongsheng ^a   Yang, Ruifu ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOFILM; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYCLIC GMP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YERSINIA PESTIS;

SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84871355362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052392     Document Type: Article

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