Response of Leptospira interrogans to physiologic osmolarity: Relevance in signaling the environment-to-host transition

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2864-2874

  Matsunaga, James ^a,b   Lo, Miranda ^c   Bulach, Dieter M ^c   Zuerner, Richard L ^d   Adler, Ben ^c   Haake, David A ^a,b  

^a VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN LIGA; PROTEIN LIGB; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME SIZE; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BORGPETERSENII; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34249904388     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01619-06     Document Type: Article

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