Regulated translation of listeriolysin O controls virulence of Listeria monocytogenes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 999-1012

  Schnupf, Pamela ^a   Hofmann, Jennifer ^b   Norseen, Julie ^b   Glomski, Ian J ^c   Schwartzstein, Hal ^b   Decatur, Amy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LISTERIOLYSIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; CYTOTOXICITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 33746529256     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05286.x     Document Type: Article

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