The bacterial signal molecule, ppGpp, regulates Salmonella virulence gene expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1827-1844

  Pizarro Cerdá, Javier ^a   Tedin, Karsten ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; LIGASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PYROPHOSPHATASES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 3042640714     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04122.x     Document Type: Article

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