Denitrification genes regulate Brucella virulence in mice

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 6025-6031

  Baek, Seung Hun ^a   Rajashekara, Gireesh ^b   Splitter, Gary A ^b   Shapleighl, James P ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA NETOMAE; BRUCELLA SUIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FUSION GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; LACTOSE OPERON; MOUSE; NIRK GENE; NIRV GENE; NNRA GENE; NONHUMAN; NOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIVER; MICE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITES; OPERON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR NEOTOMAE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR SUIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4444220091     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.18.6025-6031.2004     Document Type: Article

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