Deletion of mtrC in Haemophilus ducreyi increases sensitivity to human antimicrobial peptides and activates the CpxRA regulon

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2324-2334

  Rinker, Sherri D ^a   Trombley, Michael P ^a   Gu, Xiaoping ^a   Fortney, Kate R ^a   Bauer, Margaret E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN CPXRA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN MTRC; BETA DEFENSIN; CATHELICIDIN ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE LL 37; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; REGULON;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-DEFENSINS; CHANCROID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN KINASES; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958055551     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01316-10     Document Type: Article

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