Identification and disruption of btlA, a locus involved in bile tolerance and general stress resistance in Listeria monocytogenes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-38

  Begley, Máire ^a   Hill, Colin ^a   Gahan, Cormac G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bile tolerance; Environmental stress; Listeria monocytogenes; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ACID; AGAR; ALCOHOL; AMPICILLIN; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; FOSFOMYCIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GROWTH RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; LETHALITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

ACIDS; BILE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MURINAE;

EID: 0037458177     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01048-0     Document Type: Article

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