Deletion of the C-terminus of polynucleotide phosphorylase increases twitching motility, a virulence characteristic of the anaerobic bacterial pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 302, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-45

  Palanisamy, Suresh K A ^a   Fletcher, Carrie ^a   Tanjung, Livia ^a   Katz, Margaret E ^a   Cheetham, Brian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fimbriae; Footrot; Pathogenicity; Pathogenicity island; Polynucleotide phosphorylase; Virulence

Indexed keywords

POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME RELEASE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THERMOSTABILITY; TWITCHING MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME STABILITY; FOOT ROT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 70949099378     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01831.x     Document Type: Article

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