DNA adenine methylation regulates virulence gene expression in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 8160-8168

  Balbontín, Roberto ^a   Rowley, Gary ^b   Pucciarelli, M Graciela ^c   López Garrido, Javier ^a   Wormstone, Yvette ^b   Lucchini, Sacha ^b   García Del Portillo, Francisco ^c   Hinton, Jay C D ^b   Casadesús, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA ADENINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; CHER GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA METHYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELS 2 GENE; FIMBRIA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GIFSY 1 GENE; LPPB GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; PROPHAGE ST64B; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STD GENE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; LIPOPROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; PROPHAGES; RNA, BACTERIAL; SALMONELLA PHAGES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 33751579135     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00847-06     Document Type: Article

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