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SUBMITTER: Daou N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3811788 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daou Nadine N Yu Chunxiao C McClure Ryan R Gudino Cynthia C Reed George W GW Genco Caroline A CA
Infection and immunity 20130722 10
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the causative agent of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, can infect and colonize multiple mucosal sites in both men and women. The ability to cope with different environmental conditions requires tight regulation of gene expression. In this study, we identified and characterized a gonococcal transcriptional regulatory protein (Neisseria phage repressor [Npr]) that was previously annotated as a putative gonococcal phage repressor protein. Npr was found to repress ...[more]