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Two AraC/XylS family members can independently counteract the effect of repressing sequences upstream of the hilA promoter.
Molecular microbiology - 1 May 1999
Schechter L M, Damrauer S M, Lee C A
Abstract excerpt
During infection of its hosts, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium) enters the epithelial cells of the small intestine. This process requires a number of invasion genes encoded on Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI1), a 40 kb stretch of DNA located near minute 63 of the S. typhimurium chromosome. Expression of S. typhimurium SPI1 invasion genes is activated by the transcription factor...
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