Article
Analysis of the fimB promoter region involved in type 1 pilus phase variation in Escherichia coli.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Mar 1994
Schwan W R, Seifert H S, Duncan J L
Abstract excerpt
Many strains of Escherichia coli express type 1 pili which undergo phase variation during growth in broth, but become uniformly nonpiliated when passaged on agar media. In a previous analysis of these agar phase locked strains, we demonstrated that fimB and fimE, which mediate the site-specific DNA rearrangement involved in phase variation, are differentially transcribed under the two growth conditions. In this...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Integrases
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Promoter Regions, Genetic