The pathogenic properties of a novel and conserved gene product, KerV, in proteobacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  An, Dingding ^a,b,c   Apidianakis, Yiorgos ^a,b,c   Boechat, Ana Laura ^d   Baldini, Regina L ^d   Goumnerov, Boyan C ^a   Rahme, Laurence G ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Shriners Burns Institute   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN KERV; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEOBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BURKHOLDERIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA; EUKARYOTA; MUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 70349686687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007167     Document Type: Article

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