The Bartonella quintana extracytoplasmic function sigma factor rpoe has a role in bacterial adaptation to the arthropod vector environment

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2662-2674

  Abromaitis, Stephanie ^a,b   Koehler, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR NEPR; SIGMA FACTOR PHYR; SIGMA FACTOR RPOE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PEDICULUS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGMA FACTOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRENCH FEVER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84877933468     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01972-12     Document Type: Article

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