Uropathogenic Escherichia coli use D-serine deaminase to modulate infection of the murine urinary tract

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-67

  Roesch, Paula L ^a   Redford, Peter ^a   Batchelet, Stephanie ^a   Moritz, Rebecca L ^a   Pellett, Shahaireen ^a   Haugen, Brian J ^a   Blattner, Frederick R ^b   Welch, Rodney A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAMINASE; DEXTRO AMINO ACID; DEXTRO SERINE; DEXTRO SERINE DEAMINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATABOLISM; CELL SHAPE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE LEVEL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SIZE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYDRO-LYASES; MICE; SERINE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0038723388     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03543.x     Document Type: Article

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