Two-component system regulon plasticity in bacteria: A concept emerging from phenotypic analysis of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis response regulator mutants

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 603, Issue , 2007, Pages 145-155

  Flamez, Claire ^a   Marceau, Michaël ^a   Simonet, Michel ^a   Arafah, Sonia ^a   Ricard, Isabelle ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOP PROTEIN; PROTEIN PHOQ; PROTEIN PMRA; PROTEIN PMRB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCA GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NTRC GENE; OMPR GENE; PHENOTYPE; PHOP GENE; PMRA GENE; PMRF GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RCSB GENE; REGULON; RSTA GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWO COMPONENT SYSTEM; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YFHA GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84934437945     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72124-8_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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