Global gene expression profiling of Yersinia pestis replicating inside macrophages reveals the roles of a putative stress-induced operon in regulating type III secretion and intracellular cell division

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3700-3715

  Fukuto, Hana S ^a   Svetlanov, Anton ^a   Palmer, Lance E ^a,b   Karzai, A Wali ^a   Bliska, James B ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; YOPP PROTEIN, YERSINIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ISOLATION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL LINE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OPERON; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 77956640558     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00062-10     Document Type: Article

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