Dueling regulatory properties of a transcriptional activator (MtrA) and repressor (MtrR) that control efflux pump gene expression in neisseria gonorrhoeae

mBio

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Zalucki, Yaramah M ^a   Dhulipala, Vijaya ^a   Shafer, William M ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL EFFLUX PUMP; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; PROTEIN MTRA; PROTEIN MTRR; TRITON X 100; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA; CARRIER PROTEIN; MTRA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MTRR PROTEIN, NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OCTOXINOL; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL EFFLUX PUMP GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING COMPETITION; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DNA PROBE; GENE EXPRESSION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING;

NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OCTOXYNOL; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84872122897     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00446-12     Document Type: Article

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