Hfq is essential for Vibrio cholerae virulence and downregulates σE expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 345-354

  Ding, Yanpeng ^a   Davis, Brigid M ^a   Waldor, Matthew K ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HFQ; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UPREGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 3142550776     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04142.x     Document Type: Article

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