Salmonella typhi rpoS mutant is less cytotoxic than the parent strain but survives inside resting THP-1 macrophages

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 201-208

  Khan, Abdul Quayum ^a   Zhao, Licheng ^a   Hirose, Kenji ^b   Miyake, Masaki ^c   Li, Teimin ^a   Hashimoto, Yasuhiro ^a   Kawamura, Yoshiaki ^a   Ezaki, Takayuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Macrophage; RpoS; Salmonella typhi; Sigma factor

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; SIGMA FACTOR; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MUTATION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032054381     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00075-5     Document Type: Article

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