Vibrio cholerae anaerobic induction of virulence gene expression is controlled by thiol-based switches of virulence regulator AphB

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

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 810-815

  Liu, Zhi ^a   Yang, Menghua ^a   Peterfreund, Gregory L ^a   Tsou, Amy M ^a   Selamoglu, Nur ^a   Daldal, Fevzi ^a   Zhong, Zengtao ^b   Kan, Biao ^c   Zhu, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Thiol modification; Virulence activators

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN APHB; THIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; OXYGEN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEOMICS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 79551673521     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014640108     Document Type: Article

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