The Brucella abortus Lon functions as a generalized stress response protease and is required for wild-type virulence in BALB/c mice

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 577-588

  Robertson, Gregory T ^a   Kovach, Michael E ^a,c   Allen, Chris A ^b,d   Ficht, Thomas A ^b   Roop II, R Martin ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BALDWIN WALLACE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; PUROMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEASE LA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033975250     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01726.x     Document Type: Article

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