Attenuated enzootic (pestoides) isolates of Yersinia pestis express active aspartase

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 198-209

  Bearden, Scott W ^a   Sexton, Christopher ^a   Pare, Joshua ^b   Fowler, Janet M ^b   Arvidson, Cindy G ^b   Yerman, Lyudmyla ^c   Viola, Ronald E ^c   Brubaker, Robert R ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b 2215 Biomedical Physical Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMMONIA LYASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROLINE; SERINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLAGUE; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA INFECTION; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACILLI (CLASS); MICROTUS; MUROIDEA; RODENTIA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMMONIA-LYASE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; PLAGUE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA INFECTIONS; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 61449217990     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.021170-0     Document Type: Article

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