The Cpx envelope stress response both facilitates and inhibits elaboration of the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli bundle-forming pilus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1095-1110

  Vogt, Stefanie L ^a   Nevesinjac, Anna Z ^a   Humphries, Romney M ^b,d   Donnenberg, Michael S ^c   Armstrong, Glen D ^b   Raivio, Tracy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BUNDLE FORMING PILUS PROTEIN; DSBA PROTEIN; PROTEIN CPX; PROTEIN CPXP; PROTEIN DEGP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN KINASES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77952802182     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07145.x     Document Type: Article

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