Contingency locus in ctsR of Listeria monocytogenes Scott A: A strategy for occurrence of abundant piezotolerant isolates within clonal populations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8390-8396

  Karatzas, Kimon A G ^a,b,d   Valdramidis, Vasileios P ^a,b,e   Wells Bennik, Marjon H J ^a,b,c  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CODON; HEAT SHOCK REGULATOR; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTATION;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; PHENOTYPE; STRESS RESISTANCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CTSR GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; HEAT SHOCK; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PASTEURIZATION; PIEZOTOLERANCE; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 29144476764     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.8390-8396.2005     Document Type: Article

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