YjjQ represses transcription of flhDC and additional loci in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 197, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 2713-2720

  Wiebe, Helene ^a   Gürlebeck, Doreen ^b   Groß, Jana ^a   Dreck, Katrin ^a   Pannen, Derk ^a   Ewers, Christa ^c   Wieler, Lothar H ^b,d   Schnetz, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA A; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR; YJJQ PROTEIN, E COLI;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA BINDING MOTIF; FLHDC GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GFC GENE; INNER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OMPC GENE; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; YFIRNB GENE; YJJQ GENE; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPERON;

AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84937852618     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00263-15     Document Type: Article

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