Characterization of an Eschenchia coli O157:H7 O-antigen deletion mutant and effect of the deletion on bacterial persistence in the mouse intestine and colonization at the bovine terminal rectal mucosa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 5015-5022

  Sheng, Haiqing ^a   Lim, Ji Youn ^a   Watkins, Maryann K ^a   Minnich, Scott A ^a   Hovde, Carolyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; BACTERIOLOGY; CAPILLARITY; CELL GROWTH; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COLLOIDS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GELATION; HEALTH; LIQUIDS; POLYMERS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PORT TERMINALS; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; SULFATE MINERALS; TRANSCRIPTION; WATER POLLUTION;

CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DELETION MUTANTS; E. COLI O157:H7; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTIMIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O-ANTIGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SECRETED PROTEINS; SIDE CHAINS; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE-POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SYNTHETASE; WILD-TYPE;

CELL MEMBRANES;

O ANTIGEN; ADHESIN; AMINOTRANSFERASE; EAEA PROTEIN, E COLI; EAEB PROTEIN, E COLI; EPIMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ESPA PROTEIN, E COLI; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEROSAMINE SYNTHETASE;

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MUTATION; PERSISTENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; RODENT; RUMINANT; SECRETION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DELETION MUTANT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTESTINE FLORA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECTUM MUCOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; MUS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; CATTLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICE; O ANTIGENS; PHENOTYPE; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 50049115026     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00743-08     Document Type: Article

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