Toll-like receptor 2 activation by Chlamydia trachomatis is plasmid dependent, and plasmid-responsive chromosomal loci are coordinately regulated in response to glucose limitation by C. trachomatis but not by C. muridarum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1044-1056

  O'Connell, Catherine M ^a   AbdelRahman, Yasser M ^b   Green, Erin ^a   Darville, Hillary K ^a   Saira, Kazima ^a   Smith, Bennett ^a   Darville, Toni ^a   Scurlock, Amy M ^c   Meyer, Christopher R ^d   Belland, Robert J ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79952309164     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01118-10     Document Type: Article

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