An AraC-type transcriptional regulator encoded on the Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island contributes to pathogenesis and intracellular macrophage survival

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5668-5676

  Coburn, Phillip S ^a   Baghdayan, Arto S ^a   Dolan, G T ^a   Shankar, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAC PROTEIN; PROTEIN PERA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CELL SURVIVAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 57349112300     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00930-08     Document Type: Article

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