Dual regulatory pathways integrating the RcsC-RcsD-RcsB signalling system control enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli pathogenicity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 320-333

  Tobe, Toru ^a   Ando, Hiroki ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroko ^a   Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Tashiro, Kosuke ^b   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^c   Kuhara, Satoru ^b   Sugimoto, Nakaba ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; HISTIDINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRVA GENE; LER GENE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RCSB GENE; RCSC GENE; RCSD GENE; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CACO-2 CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 26244461167     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04828.x     Document Type: Article

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