The superoxide dismutases of Bacillus anthracis do not cooperatively protect against endogenous superoxide stress

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3837-3848

  Passalacqua, Karla D ^a   Bergman, Nicholas H ^a   Herring Palmer, Amy ^a   Hanna, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL LYSATE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODA1 GENE; SODA2 GENE; SODC GENE; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; ISOENZYMES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDES;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

EID: 33744764304     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00239-06     Document Type: Article

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