Bacterial DNA topology and infectious disease

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 672-678

  Dorman, Charles J ^a   Corcoran, Colin P ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 63349085395     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn996     Document Type: Article

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