Identification of a Single-nucleotide insertion in the promoter region affecting the sodc promoter activity in brucella neotomae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Moustafa, Dina A ^a   Jain, Neeta ^b   Sriranganathan, Nammalwar ^b   Vemulapalli, Ramesh ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BIOTYPE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA NEOTOMAE; BRUCELLA SUIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SODC GENE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRUCELLOSIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; LIVER; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR NEOTOMAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIVER; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 78649645416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014112     Document Type: Article

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