Role of melanin pigment in expression of vibrio cholerae virulence factors

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 935-942

  Valeru, Soni Priya ^a   Rompikuntal, Pramod Kumar ^a   Ishikawa, Takahiko ^a   Vaitkevicius, Karolis ^a   Sjöling, Åsa ^b   Dolganov, Nadia ^c   Zhu, Jun ^d   Schoolnik, Gary ^c   Wai, Sun Nyunt ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A PROTEIN; HOMOGENTISATE 1,2 DIOXYGENASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MELANIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GROWTH CURVE; HMGA GENE; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON; VC1345 GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MELANINS; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 62449189465     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00929-08     Document Type: Article

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