The legionella pneumophila cpxRA two-component regulatory system: New insights into cpxR's function as a dual regulator and its connection to the effectors regulatory network

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1059-1079

  Feldheim, Yaron S ^a   Zusman, Tal ^a   Speiser, Yariv ^a   Segal, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CPXRA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CPXR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACKA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CEG18 GENE; CEG29 GENE; CEG33 GENE; CEGC1 GENE; CEGC2 GENE; CEGC3 GENE; CEGC4 GENE; CEGC7 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPXA GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; LEGA10 GENE; LEGA11 GENE; LEGAS4 GENE; LEGC6 GENE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEM18 GENE; LNAB GENE; LPG0294 GENE; LPG1670 GENE; LPG1907 GENE; LPG2407 GENE; LPG2461 GENE; LPG2844 GENE; LPG2888 GENE; MAVM GENE; MAVT GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PTA GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SIDD GENE; SIDH GENE; SIDM GENE; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; WILD TYPE; BINDING SITE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84960434046     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13290     Document Type: Article

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