RpoS controls the Vibrio cholerae mucosal escape response

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 0933-0948

  Nielsen, Alex Toftgaard ^a   Dolganov, Nadia A ^a   Otto, Glen ^b,c   Miller, Michael C ^a   Cheng, Yen Wu ^a   Schoolnik, Gary K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; UPREGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CHOLERA; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ILEUM; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLERA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ILEUM; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOVEMENT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGMA FACTOR; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 33750514998     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0020109     Document Type: Article

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