Transcriptional Slippage in mxiE Controls Transcription and Translation of the Downstream mxiD Gene, Which Encodes a Component of the Shigella flexneri Type III Secretion Apparatus
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 188 (3) , 1196-8
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.188.3.1196-1198.2006
Abstract
The Shigella flexneri transcription activator MxiE is produced by transcriptional slippage from two overlapping open reading frames. By using plasmids encoding a mxiD-lacZ translational fusion, we showed that transcriptional slippage in mxiE influences both transcription and translation of the downstream mxiD gene encoding an essential component of the type III secretion apparatus.Keywords
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