Expression of Bacillus cereus hemolysin II in Bacillus subtilis renders the bacteria pathogenic for the crustacean daphnia magna

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-119

  Sineva, Elena V ^a,e   Andreeva Kovalevskaya, Zhanna I ^a   Shadrin, Andrey M ^a   Gerasimov, Yury L ^b   Ternovsky, Vadim I ^c   Teplova, Vera V ^d   Yurkova, Tatyana V ^a   Solonin, Alexander S ^a  

^a SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^b SAMARA NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Bacillus cereus; Daphnia; Fluorescence microscopy; Hemolysin; HlyII

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DAPHNIA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DAPHNIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 69949175896     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01742.x     Document Type: Article

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