The post-transcriptional regulator CsrA plays a central role in the adaptation of bacterial pathogens to different stages of infection in animal hosts

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-29

  Lucchetti Miganeh, Céline ^a   Burrowes, Elizabeth ^b   Baysse, Christine ^a   Ermel, Gwennola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON STORAGE REGULATOR A PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 38849168148     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/012286-0     Document Type: Review

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