Differential regulation of urease activity in Helicobacter hepaticus and Helicobacter pylori

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3989-3995

  Belzer, Clara ^a   Stoof, Jeroen ^a   Beckwith, Catherine S ^b   Kuipers, Ernst J ^a   Kusters, Johannes G ^a   van Vliet, Arnoud H M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; APOENZYME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; MESSENGER RNA; NICKEL; NICKEL CHLORIDE; UREA; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BRUCELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REGULATION; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUPPLEMENTATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NICKEL; UREASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; RODENTIA;

EID: 29244447384     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28188-0     Document Type: Article

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