Quorum sensing and a global regulator TsrA control expression of type VI secretion and virulence in Vibrio cholerae

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 21128-21133

  Zheng, Jun ^a   Shin, Ok S ^a   Cameron, D Ewen ^a   Mekalanos, John J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMAGGLUTININ; PROTEIN TSRA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; GENE CONTROL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUORUM SENSING; RABBIT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTESTINES; MICE; QUORUM SENSING; RABBITS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 78650485610     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014998107     Document Type: Article

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