Analysis of virulence plasmid gene expression defines three classes of effectors in the type III secretion system of Shigella flexneri

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 951-962

  Le Gall, Tony ^a,b   Mavris, Maria ^a   Martino, Maria Celeste ^c   Bernardini, Maria Lina ^c   Denamur, Erick ^a   Parsot, Claude ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE ET DES SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ   (France)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 14644386707     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27639-0     Document Type: Article

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