Ascorbic acid-dependent gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae and the activator function of the transcriptional regulator UlaR2

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Afzal, Muhammad ^a,b   Shafeeq, Sulman ^a,c   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GOVERNMENT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AdcR; Ascorbic acid; Pneumococcus; Ula2 operon; UlaR2; Zinc

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLUCOSE; TETRACYCLINE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULA2 GENE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ULA;

EID: 84927548314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00072     Document Type: Article

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