Characterization of the urease operon of Brucella abortus and assessment of its role in virulence of the bacterium

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 774-780

  Sangari, Félix J ^a   Seoane, Asunción ^a   Rodríguez, María Cruz ^a   Agüero, Jesús ^a,b   Lobo, Juan M García ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN UREA; PROTEIN UREB; PROTEIN UREC; PROTEIN URED; PROTEIN UREE; PROTEIN UREF; PROTEIN UREG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; COBT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URE1 GENE; URE2 GENE;

ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STOMACH; UREA; UREASE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 33846839039     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01244-06     Document Type: Article

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