CadA negatively regulates Escherichia coli O157:H7 adherence and intestinal colonization

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5072-5081

  Vazquez Juarez, Roberto C ^b   Kuriakose, Jeeba A ^a   Rasko, David A ^c   Ritchie, Jennifer M ^d   Kendall, Melissa M ^c   Slater, Terry M ^a   Sinha, Mala ^e   Luxon, Bruce A ^e   Popov, Vsevolod L ^a   Waldor, Matthew K ^d   Sperandio, Vanessa ^c   Torres, Alfredo G ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADAVERINE; INTIMIN; LYSINE; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN CADA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECARBOXYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBOXY-LYASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 55849137949     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00677-08     Document Type: Article

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