Honing the message: Post-transcriptional and post-translational control in attaching and effacing pathogens

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 217-224

  Bhatt, Shantanu ^a,b   Romeo, Tony ^a,c   Kalman, Daniel ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN CLPXP; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE CELL; LEE2 GENE; LEE3 GENE; LEE4 GENE; LEE5 GENE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79955483854     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2011.01.004     Document Type: Review

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