The svpA-srtB locus of Listeria monocytogenes: Fur-mediated iron regulation and effect on virulence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 927-940

  Newton, Salete M C ^a,b   Klebba, Phillip E ^a,b   Raynaud, Catherine ^a   Shao, Yi ^b   Jiang, Xiaoxu ^b   Dubail, Iharilalao ^a   Archer, Crystal ^b   Frehel, Claude ^a   Charbit, Alain ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,2' BIPYRIDINE; CHELATING AGENT; FERRICHROME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEMIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPERNATANT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL LINE; CULTURE MEDIA; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IRON; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MURINAE; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRIXIS;

EID: 13444278970     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04436.x     Document Type: Article

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