Burkholderia cenocepacia requires a periplasmic HtrA protease for growth under thermal and osmotic stress and for survival in vivo

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1679-1689

  Flannagan, Ronald S ^a   Aubert, Daniel ^a   Kooi, Cora ^b   Sokol, Pamela A ^b   Valvano, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLICIN; COLICIN V; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; PDZ PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC HTRA PROTEASE; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SERINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HEAT STRESS; HTRA GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; BURKHOLDERIA INFECTIONS; COLICINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OPERON; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34147144087     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01581-06     Document Type: Article

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