BMC Microbiology

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Limited functional conservation of a global regulator among related bacterial genera: Lrp in Escherichia, Proteus and Vibrio

Robert E Lintner1,5, Pankaj K Mishra1,6, Poonam Srivastava2, Betsy M Martinez-Vaz2,7, Arkady B Khodursky2,3 and Robert M Blumenthal1,4*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Toledo Health Sciences Center, Toledo, OH 43614-2598, USA

2 Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108-1022, USA

3 Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108-1022, USA

4 Program in Bioinformatics and Proteomics/Genomics, University of Toledo Health Sciences Center, Toledo, OH 43614-2598, USA

5 Current Address: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

6 Current Address: Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA

7 Current Address: Hamline University, St. Paul, MN 55104, USA

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BMC Microbiology 2008, 8:60 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-8-60

Published: 11 April 2008

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Lrp in gamma proteobacteria (Fig. S1), and table of oligonucleotides used (Table S1).

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Genes significantly affected by various Lrp orthologs in E. coli K-12.

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