Novel transcriptional regulators of Legionella pneumophila that affect replication in Acanthamoeba castellanii

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 362-370

  Lebeau, Ilya ^a   Lammertyn, Elke ^a   De Buck, Emmy ^a   Maes, Liesbeth ^a   Geukens, Nick ^a   Van Mellaert, Lieve ^a   Anné, Jozef ^a  

^a REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba castellanii; FlaA; Legionella pneumophila; Legionnaires' disease; Pneumonia; Regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAGELLIN; PLASMID DNA; PRIMER DNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR LPNR1; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR LPNR2; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR LPNR3; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR LPNR4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLIN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; U937 CELLS; VIRULENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 2442678868     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-004-0664-6     Document Type: Article

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