Transcriptional adaptation of Shigella flexneri during infection of macrophages and epithelial cells: Insights into the strategies of a cytosolic bacterial pathogen

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-102

  Lucchini, Sacha ^a   Liu, Hong ^c,d   Jin, Qi ^c   Hinton, Jay C D ^a   Yu, Jun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c State Key Lab Molec Virol G   (China)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL STRAIN U937; CYTOSOL; DNA MICROARRAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ICSA GENE; IPA MXI SPA GENE; MACROPHAGE; MGTA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOBR GENE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS; SITA GENE; VIRB GENE; VIRF GENE; VIRG GENE; YDEO GENE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; NAD; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGULON; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 11144252281     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.1.88-102.2005     Document Type: Article

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