RsbT and RsbV contribute to σB-dependent survival under environmental, energy, and intracellular stress conditions in Listeria monocytogenes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5349-5356

  Chaturongakul, Soraya ^a   Boor, Kathryn J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; OXIDATION; PH EFFECTS; TISSUE CULTURE;

ENERGY STRESSES; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN RSBT; PROTEIN RSBV; SIGMA B FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVALUATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE; GENE DELETION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OPERON; PH MEASUREMENT; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGB GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH JUICE; STRESS; SURVIVAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENT; KINETICS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 4644324300     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5349-5356.2004     Document Type: Article

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