Role of gluconeogenesis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle in the virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium in BALB/c mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1130-1140

  Yimga, Merlin Tchawa ^a,c   Leatham, Mary P ^a   Allen, James H ^a,d   Laux, David C ^a   Conway, Tyrrell ^b   Cohen, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d inGenious Targeting Laboratory Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATABOLITE REPRESSOR ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; COENZYME A; FATTY ACID; FUMARIC ACID; GLYOXYLIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID; SUCCINYL COENZYME A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACEA GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON SOURCE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FADD GENE; FBP GENE; FEMALE; FRDABC GENE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; GLPX GENE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PCKA GENE; PPSA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SDHCDA GENE; SEROTYPE; SUSCD GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 31844453975     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.2.1130-1140.2006     Document Type: Article

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