Enterococcus faecalis senses target cells and in response expresses cytolysin

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5705, 2004, Pages 2270-2272

  Coburn, Phillip S ^a   Pillar, Christopher M ^a,b   Jett, Bradley D ^a,c   Haas, Wolfgang ^a,d   Gilmore, Michael S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Oklahoma Baptist University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CYTOLYSINS; INDUCTION THRESHOLD; TARGET CELLS; VIRULENT STRAINS;

CELLS;

CYTOLYSIN;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TARGET CELL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPERON; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 11144287200     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103996     Document Type: Article

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