The osmotic regulator OmpR is involved in the response of Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 to environmental stresses and survival within macrophages

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-271

  Brzostek, Katarzyna ^a   Raczkowska, Adrianna ^a   Zasada, Aleksandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

Author keywords

OmpR; Virulence; Yersinia enterocolitica; Yop protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; PROTEIN YOP; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; DELETION MUTANT; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; OSMOREGULATION; PH; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0344153759     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00779-1     Document Type: Article

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