Global regulation of virulence and the stress response by CsrA in the highly adapted human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-32

  Barnard, Faye M ^a   Loughlin, Michael F ^a   Fainberg, Hernan P ^a   Messenger, Michael P ^a   Ussery, David W ^b   Williams, Paul ^a   Jenks, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAGA PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN AHPC; PROTEIN CSRA; PROTEIN FUR; PROTEIN GROESL; PROTEIN HSPR; PROTEIN NAPA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE; VACUOLATING TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE INDUCTION; HEAT SHOCK; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA STABILITY; SHORT SURVEY; STOMACH MUCOSA; SURVIVAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA DAMAGE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0348225097     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03788.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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