Role for HtrA in stress induction and virulence potential in Listena monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 4241-4247

  Stack, Helena M ^a   Sleator, Roy D ^a   Bowers, Megan ^b   Hill, Colin ^a,c   Gahan, Cormac G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; GENES; STRESSES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MONOCYTOGENES; PENICILLIN STRESS; STRESS INDUCTION; VIRULENCE POTENTIAL;

MICROBIOLOGY;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PENICILLIN G; SERINE PROTEINASE OMI;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; HEAT SHOCK; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LMO0292 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIN G; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRULENCE;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 23744437997     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.8.4241-4247.2005     Document Type: Article

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