Listeria monocytogenes PerR mutants display a small-colony phenotype, increased sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide, and significantly reduced murine virulence

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8314-8322

  Rea, Rosemarie ^a   Hill, Colin ^a,b   Gahan, Cormac G M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTANT; MUTATION;

MICROORGANISMS;

CATALASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

BACTERIAL DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOINFORMATICS; FRI GENE; FUR GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMA GENE; HOMEOSTASIS; KAT GENE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERR GENE; TRXB GENE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KINETICS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MURINAE;

EID: 29144438143     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.8314-8322.2005     Document Type: Article

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