A conserved GTPase YchF of Vibrio vulnificus is involved in macrophage cytotoxicity, iron acquisition, and mouse virulence

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 301, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 469-474

  Chen, Yu Chung ^a   Chung, Ya Ting ^a  

^a CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; GTPase; Iron acquisition; Macrophage; Vibrio vulnificus

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; IRON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IRON OVERLOAD; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; LETHAL DOSE 50; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 79960254960     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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