Thioredoxin reductase is essential for thiol/disulfide redox control and oxidative stress survival of the anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 8015-8023

  Rocha, Edson R ^a   Tzianabos, Arthur O ^b,c   Smith, C Jeffrey ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIAMIDE; DISULFIDE; GLUTAREDOXIN; GLUTATHIONE; LIPOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; OXYGEN; PEROXIDE; THIOL; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL SURVIVAL; DIAMIDE; DISULFIDES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTATHIONE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXIDES; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; THIOREDOXIN-DISULFIDE REDUCTASE; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; LOLA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 36549049444     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00714-07     Document Type: Article

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