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Abstract
Magnesium sulfate is known to repress the expression of the virulence factors of Bordetella pertussis that are coordinately regulated by the bvg locus. We have tested the time required by MgSO4 to repress the synthesis of several bvg-regulated mRNA species and found that the promoters of the virulence genes (pertussis toxin, adenylate cyclase, and filamentous hemagglutinin) are repressed in 6 min, while the autogenously regulated promoters of the bvg locus (P1, P3, and P4) are repressed only several hours later. These data show a differential behavior between regulated and autoregulated genes of the bvg regulon.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1938931 PMCID: PMC209252 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.22.7401-7404.1991
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490