The Vibrio cholerae virulence regulatory cascade controls glucose uptake through activation of TarA, a small regulatory RNA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1171-1181

  Richard, Aimee L ^a   Withey, Jeffrey H ^a   Beyhan, Sinem ^b   Yildiz, Fitnat ^b   Dirita, Victor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA TARA; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYBRID; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHOLERA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 78649586895     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07397.x     Document Type: Article

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