Listeriolysin O as a reporter to identify constitutive and in vivo- inducible promoters in the pathogen Listeria monocytogenes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3242-3250

  Dubail, Iharilalao ^a   Berche, Patrick ^a   Charbit, Alain ^a,a   Glazer, Phillip ^a   Amend, Alexandra ^a   Baquero Mochales, Fernando ^a   Bloecker, Helmut ^a   Brandt, Petra ^a   Buchrieser, Carmen ^a   Chakraborty, Trinidad ^a   Couvé, Elizabeth ^a   De Daruvar, Antoine ^a   Dehoux, Pierre ^a   Domann, Eugen ^a   Dominguez Bernal, Gustavo ^a   Durant, Lionel ^a   Entian, Karl Dieter ^a   Franguel, Lionel ^a   Fsihi, Hafida ^a   Garcia Del Portillo, Francisco ^a   Garrido, Patricia ^a   Goebel, Werner ^a   Gomez Lopez, Nuria ^a   Hain, Torsten ^a   Hauf, Joerg ^a   Jackson, David ^a   Kreft, Jurgen ^a   Kunst, Frank ^a   Mata Vicente, Jorge ^a   Ng, Eva ^a   Nordsick, Gabriele ^a   Perez Diaz, Jose Claudio ^a   Remmel, Bettina ^a   Rose, Matthias ^a   Rusniok, Christophe ^a   Schlueter, Thomas ^a   Vazquez Boland, Jose Antonio ^a   Voss, Hartmut ^a   Wehland, Jurgen ^a   Cossart, Pascale ^a   more..

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LISTERIOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0034075288     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.6.3242-3250.2000     Document Type: Article

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