Pleiotropic effects of a Yersinia enterocolitica ompRmutation on adherent-invasive abilities and biofilm formation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 321, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-49

  Raczkowska, Adrianna ^a   Skorek, Karolina ^a   Brzóstkowska, Marta ^a   Lasińska, Anna ^a   Brzostek, Katarzyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; FlhDC; HEp 2 cells; OmpR regulator

Indexed keywords

INVASIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOFILM; BIOTYPE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR GENE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CELL LINE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 79959983478     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02308.x     Document Type: Article

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