H-NS is a negative regulator of the two hemolysin/cytotoxin gene clusters in Vibrio anguillarum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3566-3576

  Xiangyu Mou, ^a   Spinard, Edward J ^a   Driscoll, Maureen V ^a   Zhao, Wenjing ^a   Nelson, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HEMOLYSIN; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FISH; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMOLYSIS; LISTONELLA ANGUILLARUM; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; R PLASMID; RAINBOW TROUT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHUTTLE VECTOR; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FISH DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PROTEIN BINDING; VIBRIO; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884387746     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00506-13     Document Type: Article

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