Identification of regulatory elements that control expression of the tbpBA operon in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2762-2774

  Vélez Acevedo, Rosuany N ^a,e   Ronpirin, Chalinee ^b   Kandler, Justin L ^c   Shafer, William M ^c,d   Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e South University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR; IRON; LIPOPROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN A; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN B; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN BA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; HYPOTHESIS; INTERNALIZATION; INVERTED REPEAT; IRON TRANSPORT; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GONORRHEA; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSFERRIN-BINDING PROTEIN A; TRANSFERRIN-BINDING PROTEIN B;

EID: 84903879042     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01693-14     Document Type: Article

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