Activation of the Vibrio cholerae SOS response is not required for intestinal cholera toxin production or colonization

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 927-930

  Quinones, Mariam ^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

CHOLERA TOXIN; LEXA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOMYCIN C; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CTXA GENE; CTXAB GENE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIRULENCE;

EID: 31844444484     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.2.927-930.2006     Document Type: Article

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