Characterization of a yjjQ mutant of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC)

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1082-1093

  Li, Ganwu ^a,b   Ewers, Christa ^a   Laturnus, Claudia ^a   Diehl, Ines ^a   Alt, Katja ^a   Dai, Jianjun ^a   Antão, Esther Maria ^a   Schnetz, Karin ^c   Wieler, Lothar H ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN YJJQ; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POULTRY DISEASES; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 44349162352     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/015784-0     Document Type: Article

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