inlA premature stop codons are common among Listeria monocytogenes isolates from foods and yield virulence-attenuated strains that confer protection against fully virulent strains

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 6570-6583

  Nightingale, K K ^a,b   Ivy, R A ^a   Ho, A J ^a   Fortes, E D ^a   Njaa, B L ^a,c   Peters, R M ^a   Wiedmann, M ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MAMMALS;

BACTERIAL LOADS; DATA SUPPORTS; DOWNSTREAM; GUINEA PIGS; HEPG2 CELL LINES; INTERNAL ORGANS; ISOGENIC MUTANTS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALIAN HOSTS; MONOCYTOGENES; NATURAL STRAINS; POLAR EFFECTS; PREMATURE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ANALYSES; VIRULENT STRAINS; WEIGHT GAINS;

STRAIN;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN INLA; PROTEIN INLB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; MUTATION; PIG; SECRETION; VACCINATION; VIRULENCE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE MUTATION; GUINEA PIG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROCONVERSION; STOP CODON; WEIGHT GAIN; WILD TYPE;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL LINE; CODON, NONSENSE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 55049099251     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00997-08     Document Type: Article

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