Sodium regulates Escherichia coli acid resistance, and influences GadX- and GadW-dependent activation of gadE

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3154-3161

  Richard, Hope ^a   Foster, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ARAC PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARBOXYLYASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE A; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE B; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE BC; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE C; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE E; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE W; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE X; GLUTAMIC ACID; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CELL LEVEL; STOMACH ACID; STOMACH PH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; SODIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34948835217     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/007575-0     Document Type: Article

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