Article
HmsT, a protein essential for expression of the haemin storage (Hms+) phenotype of Yersinia pestis.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Aug 1999
Jones Heather A, Lillard James W, Perry Robert D
Abstract excerpt
The haemin storage (Hms) phenotype of Yersinia pestis has been shown to be involved in the blockage of fleas that is required for the transmission of plague from fleas to mammals. Previously, an operon encoding four genes, hmsHFRS, that are essential for the temperature-regulated Hms+ phenotype has been characterized. Here the isolation and characterization of a fifth gene, hmsT, that is essential for this...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Hemin
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Recombination, Genetic
- Restriction Mapping
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Temperature
- Transcription, Genetic
- Yersinia pestis