Cell membrane is impaired, accompanied by enhanced type III secretion system expression in Yersinia pestis deficient in RovA regulator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Yang, Fengkun ^a,b   Ke, Yuehua ^b   Tan, Yafang ^b   Bi, Yujing ^b   Shi, Qinghai ^b   Yang, Huiying ^b   Qiu, Jinfu ^b,c   Wang, Xiaoyi ^b   Guo, Zhaobiao ^b   Ling, Hong ^a   Yang, Ruifu ^b   Du, Zongmin ^b  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^c CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN ROVA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YERSINIA OUTER PROTEIN; YERSINIA OUTER PROTEIN E; YERSINIA OUTER PROTEIN J; ROVA PROTEIN, YERSINIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE SEQUENCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T3SS GENE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; UPREGULATION; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PLAGUE; REGULATOR GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; MICE; PLAGUE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 77958554357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012840     Document Type: Article

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