Regulation of the 18-kDa heat shock protein in Mycobacterium ulcerans: An alpha-crystallin orthologue that promotes biofilm formation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1216-1231

  Pidot, Sacha J ^a,b   Porter, Jessica L ^b   Tobias, Nicholas J ^a,b   Anderson, Jeffrey ^b   Catmull, Deanne ^c   Seemann, Torsten ^a   Kidd, Stephen ^d   Davies, John K ^a   Reynolds, Eric ^c   Dashper, Stuart ^c   Stinear, Timothy P ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 18; MERR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 78649571537     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07401.x     Document Type: Article

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