The hmp gene encoding the NO-inducible flavohaemoglobin in Escherichia coli confers a protective advantage in resisting killing within macrophages, but not in vitro: Links with swarming motility

Gene

Volumn 398, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 62-68

  Stevanin, Tânia M ^a   Read, Robert C ^a   Poole, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial globin; Motility; Nitric oxide detoxification; Phagolysosome; Strain competition

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AZIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYANIDE; DIOXYGENASE; FLAVOHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HMP GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; MACROPHAGE; MIXED CELL CULTURE; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SWARMING MOTILITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIHYDROPTERIDINE REDUCTASE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENTAMICINS; HEMEPROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; SUCCINATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447523345     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2007.03.021     Document Type: Article

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