Expression of a Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Type VI Secretion System Is Responsive to Envelope Stresses through the OmpR Transcriptional Activator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gueguen, Erwan ^a,b   Durand, Eric ^a   Zhang, Xiang Y ^a   d'Amalric, Quentin ^a   Journet, Laure ^a   Cascales, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS and Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; LACZ GENE; NONHUMAN; OMPF GENE; OMPR GENE; OSMOLARITY; OSMOTIC STRESS; PROMOTER REGION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TSSF GENE; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEM; VGRG GENE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; BINDING SITE; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSPOSON;

NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEMS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84879227934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066615     Document Type: Article

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