Functional characterization of the BvgAS two-component system of Bordetella holmesii

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3715-3729

  Gerlach, Gabriele ^a   Janzen, Simone ^a   Beier, Dagmar ^a   Gross, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA HINZII; BORDETELLA HOLMESII; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BORDETELLA TREMATUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BORDETELLA HINZII; BORDETELLA HOLMESII; BORDETELLA PARAPERTUSSIS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BORDETELLA TREMATUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 9144249750     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27432-0     Document Type: Article

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