Iac repressor is an antivirulence factor of Salmonella enterica: Its role in the evolution of virulence in Salmonella

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Eswarappa, Sandeepa M ^a   Karnam, Guruswamy ^a   Nagarajan, Arvindhan G ^a   Chakraborty, Sangeeta ^a   Chakravortty, Dipshikha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PROTEIN LACI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOSE OPERON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA BONGORI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; WESTERN BLOTTING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA BONGORI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRULENCE;

EID: 67149092197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005789     Document Type: Article

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