Growth of calcium-blind mutants of Yersinia pestis at 37°C in permissive Ca2+-deficient environments

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2509-2521

  Fowler, Janet M ^a   Wulff, Christine R ^b   Straley, Susan C ^b   Brubaker, Robert R ^c  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; CHAPERONE LCRG; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); SODIUM ION; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YERSINIA OUTER PROTEIN D;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOSTASIS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOENERGY; CALCIUM METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALCIUM; GENE DELETION; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; SECRETORY PATHWAY; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 69949131703     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.028852-0     Document Type: Article

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