Single-Copy Green Fluorescent Protein Gene Fusions Allow Accurate Measurement of Salmonella Gene Expression In Vitro and during Infection of Mammalian Cells

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7480-7491

  Hautefort, Isabelle ^a   Proença, Maria José ^a   Hinton, Jay C D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTEINS;

GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENCE PROTEINS (GFP); PLASMID INSTABILITY;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACCIDENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRGH GENE; RELIABILITY; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SSAG GENE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 2142854105     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7480-7491.2003     Document Type: Article

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