Important role of class I heat shock genes hrcA and dnaK in the heat shock response and the response to pH and NaCl stress of group I Clostridiusm botulinum strain ATCC 3502

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2823-2830

  Selby, Katja ^a   Lindström, Miia ^a   Somervuo, Panu ^a   Heap, John T ^b   Minton, Nigel P ^b   Korkeala, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID STRESS; AFTER-HEAT; BOTULINUM; CLASS I; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CONSTANT LEVEL; DOWN-REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; FOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH PHASIS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HEAT-SHOCK; MILD TEMPERATURES; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NONOPTIMAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; REAL-TIME PCR; REDUCED GROWTH RATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASES; SIX GENES; STATIONARY PHASE; STRESS CONDITION; SURVIVAL AND GROWTH; UP-REGULATION; WILD TYPES; WILD-TYPE STRAIN;

CLOSTRIDIUM; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD PRODUCTS; MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE;

BACTERIUM; FOOD PROCESSING; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; PATHOGEN; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; REAL TIME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIOMASS; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMASS; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955635898     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02633-10     Document Type: Article

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