Article
Lrp stimulates phase variation of type 1 fimbriation in Escherichia coli K-12.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 1993
Blomfield I C, Calie P J, Eberhardt K J, McClain M S, Eisenstein B I
Abstract excerpt
The phase variation of type 1 fimbriation in Escherichia coli is associated with the inversion of a short DNA element. This element (switch) acts in cis to control transcription of fimA, the major fimbrial subunit gene. Thus, fimA is transcribed when the switch is in one orientation (the on orien...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Inversion
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Switch
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Lac Operon
- Leucine-Responsive Regulatory Protein
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Phenotype
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins
- Transcription Factors