The zinc - responsive regulon of Neisseria meningitidis comprises 1 seventeen genes under control of a Zur element 2 3
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seventeen genes under control of a Zur element 2 3 Marie-Christin Pawlik, Kerstin Hubert, Biju Joseph, Heike Claus, Christoph Schoen and 4 Ulrich Vogel 5 University of Würzburg, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Würzburg, Germany 6 7 Running title: Zinc-responsive regulon of meningococci 8 9 10 11 12 13 Correspondent footnote 14 Ulrich Vogel 15 Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology 16 University of Würzburg 17 Josef-Schneider-Str. 2 (E1) 18 97080 Würzburg 19 Germany 20 T 0049 931 3146802 21 F 0049 931 31 46445 22 23 Copyright © 2012, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.01091-12 JB Accepts, published online ahead of print on 5 October 2012
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