The Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi tsx gene, encoding a nucleoside-specific porin, is essential for prototrophic growth in the absence of nucleosides

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6210-6219

  Bucarey, Sergio A ^a   Villagra, Nicolás A ^b   Martinic, Mara P ^a   Trombert, A Nicole ^b   Santiviago, Carlos A ^a   Maulén, Nancy P ^b,d   Youderian, Philip ^c   Mora, Guido C ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE LA SANTÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEOSIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; TETRACYCLINE; TSX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; FNR GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NUPC GENE; NUPG GENE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRD GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; TSX GENE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEOSIDES; PORINS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 25444478064     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.10.6210-6219.2005     Document Type: Article

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