Environmental response and autoregulation of Clostridium difficile TxeR, a sigma factor for toxin gene expression.

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Published in J Bacteriol on November 01, 2002

Authors

Nagraj Mani1, Dena Lyras, Lisa Barroso, Pauline Howarth, Tracy Wilkins, Julian I Rood, Abraham L Sonenshein, Bruno Dupuy

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1: Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

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