Expression Regulation of Polycistronic lee3 Genes of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli.

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC) carries a pathogenic island LEE that is consisted mainly of five polycistronic operons. In the lee3 operon, mpc is the first gene and has been reported to down regulate the type-3 secretion system of EHEC when its gene product is over-expressed. Fur...

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Main Authors: Wei-Sheng W Sun, Jenn-Wei Chen, Yi-Chih Wu, Hsing-Yuan Tsai, Yu-Liang Kuo, Wan-Jr Syu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4868261?pdf=render