Capsaicin, a potential inhibitor of cholera toxin production in Vibrio cholerae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-60

  Chatterjee, Shruti ^a   Asakura, Masahiro ^a,b   Chowdhury, Nityananda ^a   Neogi, Sucharit Basu ^a   Sugimoto, Norihiko ^a,b   Haldar, Soumya ^a   Awasthi, Sharda Prasad ^a   Hinenoya, Atsushi ^a   Aoki, Shunji ^c   Yamasaki, Shinji ^a  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b Fuso Pharmaceutical Industries   (Japan)

^c HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Cholera toxin; H NS; Red chilli; ToxT; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CAPSAICIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLERA TOXIN A SUBUNIT; CHOLERA TOXIN AB SUBUNIT; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; METHANOL; TOXIN COREGULATED PILI A PROTEIN; TOXR PROTEIN; TOXS PROTEIN; TOXT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PEPPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; PROTEIN VARIANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANTIMETABOLITES; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAPSAICIN; CAPSICUM; CHOLERA TOXIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

CAPSICUM ANNUUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 77950468042     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01931.x     Document Type: Article

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