A functional phenylacetic acid catabolic pathway is required for full pathogenicity of Burkholderia cenocepacia in the Caenorhabditis elegans host model

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 7209-7218

  Law, Robyn J ^a   Hamlin, Jason N R ^a   Sivro, Aida ^a   McCorrister, Stuart J ^a   Cardama, Georgina A ^a,b   Cardona, Silvia T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COENZYME A; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PHENYLACETIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIODEGRADABILITY; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TARGETING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYDROXYLATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INTESTINES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENYLACETATES; VIRULENCE;

BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; RATTUS;

EID: 55749108894     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00481-08     Document Type: Article

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