Edwardsiella ictaluri encodes an acid-activated urease that is required for intracellular replication in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) macrophages

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6712-6720

  Booth, Natha J ^a,c   Beekman, Judith B ^a,b   Thune, Ronald L ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID CONDITIONS; ACID TOLERANCE; ACIDIC ENVIRONMENT; AMMONIA PRODUCTION; AMMONIUM TRANSPORTERS; EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; ENVIRONMENTAL PH; GENOMIC ANALYSIS; IN-CHANNELS; IN-VITRO; INTRACELLULAR REPLICATION; INTRACELLULAR SURVIVAL; MUTANT STRAIN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPTIMAL ACTIVITY; PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UREASE ACTIVITY; WILD TYPES;

ACIDS; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MACROPHAGES; UREA;

METABOLISM;

UREASE;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GEMSTONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUTATION; PH; VIRULENCE; WILD POPULATION;

ACID TOLERANCE; AMMONIA FORMATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHANNEL CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PH; PHAGOSOME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; WILD TYPE;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENE DELETION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ICTALURIDAE; KIDNEY; MACROPHAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UREASE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS;

EID: 70350501491     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01670-09     Document Type: Article

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