Transcriptional activation of virulence genes in wild-type strains of Listeria monocytogenes in response to a change in the extracellular medium composition

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 371-384

  Ripio, M T ^a   Dominguez Bernal G ^a   Suarez M ^a   Brehm, K ^a   Berche, P ^b   Vazquez Boland J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Environmental regulation; Haemolysin; Hly; Lecithinase; Listeria monocytogenes; PlcB; PrfA; Virulence; Virulence gene expression

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0342936472     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0923-2508(96)84712-7     Document Type: Article

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