Salmonella SirA is a global regulator of genes mediating enteropathogenesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 971-982

  Ahmer, Brian M M ^a   Van Reeuwijk, Jeroen ^a   Watson, Patricia R ^b   Wallis, Tim S ^b   Heffron, Fred ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROPATHY; FUSION GENE; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TYPHOID FEVER;

ANIMALS; ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CATTLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROENTERITIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GLUCOSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEIRA; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032906637     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01244.x     Document Type: Article

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