Phenotypic and transcriptomic analyses demonstrate interactions between the transcriptional regulators QsR and sigma B in Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 7967-7980

  Hu, Yuewei ^a   Raengpradub, Sarita ^a   Schwab, Ute ^a   Loss, Chris ^a   Orsi, Renato H ^a   Wiedmann, Martin ^a   Boor, Kathryn J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SENSITIVITY; PHENOTYPES; TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSES;

CELLS; GENES; HEAT RESISTANCE; MICROARRAYS; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTAGENS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA;

ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; PROTEIN CTSR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR SIGMA B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; GENE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; STRESS RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL CULTURE; CTSR GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGB GENE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LOCOMOTION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 37349047838     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01085-07     Document Type: Article

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