Role of the Helicobacter hepaticus flagellar sigma factor FliA in gene regulation and murine colonization

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6398-6408

  Sterzenbach, Torsten ^a   Bartonickova, Lucie ^a   Behrens, Wiebke ^a   Brenneke, Birgit ^a   Schulze, Jessika ^a   Kops, Friederike ^a   Chin, Elaine Y ^b,c   Katzowitsch, Elena ^a   Schauer, David B ^b   Fox, James G ^b   Suerbaum, Sebastian ^a   Josenhans, Christine ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLAGELLIN; FLAGELLIN SUBUNIT FLAA; MUTANT PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR FLIA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; INTESTINE FLORA; KNOCKOUT GENE; MALE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FLAGELLIN; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGMA FACTOR;

HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 52649112717     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00626-08     Document Type: Article

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