Built shallow to maintain homeostasis and persistent infection: Insight into the transcriptional regulatory network of the gastric human pathogen Helicobacter pylori

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Danielli, Alberto ^a   Amore, Gabriele ^b   Scarlato, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77954685061     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000938     Document Type: Review

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