Article
Integration host factor stimulates both FimB- and FimE-mediated site-specific DNA inversion that controls phase variation of type 1 fimbriae expression in Escherichia coli.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Feb 1997
Blomfield I C, Kulasekara D H, Eisenstein B I
Abstract excerpt
The site-specific DNA inversion that controls phase variation of type 1 fimbriation in E. coli is catalysed by two recombinases, FimB and FimE. Efficient inversion by either recombinase also requires the leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp). In addition, FimB recombination is stimulated by...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- DNA Footprinting
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genes, Switch
- Integrases
- Integration Host Factors
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation