VirR, a response regulator critical for Listeria monocytogenes virulence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1367-1380

  Mandin, Pierre ^a   Fsihi, Hafida ^a   Dussurget, Olivier ^a   Vergassola, Massimo ^a   Milohanic, Eliane ^a,c   Toledo Arana, Alejandro ^b   Lasa, Iñigo ^b   Johansson, Jörgen ^a,d   Cossart, Pascale ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LYSINE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DLTA GENE; DLTB GENE; DLTC GENE; DLTD GENE; DNA BINDING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; REPORTER GENE; SIGNATURE TAGGED MUTAGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRR GENE; VIRS GENE;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIR;

EID: 23844509152     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04776.x     Document Type: Article

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