Selection of Shigella flexneri candidate virulence genes specifically induced in bacteria resident in host cell cytoplasm

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 613-616

  Bartoleschi, Cecilia ^a   Pardini, Maria Chiara ^a   Scaringi, Claudia ^b   Martino, Maria Celeste ^b   Pazzani, Carlo ^b,c   Bernardini, Maria Lina ^b  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOASSAY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM; DNA VECTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIS CATUS; PROKARYOTA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0036739240     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2002.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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