Specific osmolyte transporters mediate bile tolerance in Listeria monocytogenes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4895-4904

  Watson, Debbie ^a,b   Sleator, Roy D ^a,c   Casey, Pat G ^a   Hill, Colin ^a,b   Gahan, Cormac G M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETAINE; CARNITINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN BETL; PROTEIN GBU; PROTEIN OPUC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BILE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; MOUTH INFECTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAINE; BILE; CARNITINE; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 70350458744     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00153-09     Document Type: Article

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