Bacterial-chromatin structural proteins regulate the bimodal expression of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

mBio

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Leh, Hervé ^a   Khodr, Ahmad ^a,d   Bouger, Marie Christine ^a   Sclavi, Bianca ^a   Rimsky, Sylvie ^b   Bury Moné, Stéphanie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^d L'Oréal Research and Innovation   (France)

Author keywords

Bacterial chromatin; Bet hedging; Bimodal expression; EPEC; H NS; LEE encoded regulator; Ler; Nongenetic variability; Nucleoid associated protein; Stochasticity; Virulence regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL CHROMATIN STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LEE PROTEIN, E COLI; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; OPERON; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 85029188664     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00773-17     Document Type: Article

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