A PhoP-regulated outer membrane protease of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium promotes resistance to alpha-helical antimicrobial peptides

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 4077-4086

  Guina, Tina ^a   Yi, Eugene C ^a   Wang, Houle ^a,b   Hackett, Murray ^a   Miller, Samuel I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BRUKER DALTONIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROTEINASE;

ALPHA HELIX; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0033919460     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.14.4077-4086.2000     Document Type: Article

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