Inducible control of virulence gene expression in Listeria monocytogenes: Temporal requirement of listeriolysin O during intracellular infection

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 5935-5945

  Dancz, Christina E ^a   Haraga, Andrea ^a   Portnoy, Daniel A ^a   Higgins, Darren E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLYSIN; LISTERIOLYSIN; LISTERIOLYSIN O; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SPREADING; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CYTOTOXINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036838013     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.21.5935-5945.2002     Document Type: Article

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