Involvement of RNA-binding protein Hfq in the osmotic-response regulation of invE gene expression in Shigella sonnei

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mitobe, Jiro ^a   Morita Ishihara, Tomoko ^a   Ishihama, Akira ^b   Watanabe, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN HFQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; HOST FACTOR 1; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GUINEA PIG; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OSMOLARITY; RNA PROCESSING;

NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

ANIMALS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, BACTERIAL; SHIGELLA SONNEI; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 67649329734     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-110     Document Type: Article

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