The PmrA/PmrB regulatory system controls the expression of the wzz fepE gene involved in the O-antigen synthesis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2515-2521

  de las Mercedes Pescaretti, María ^a   López, Fabián E ^a   Morero, Roberto D ^a   Delgado, Mónica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; O ANTIGEN; POLYMYXIN B;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MACROPHAGE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PMRA GENE; PMRB GENE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; O ANTIGENS; POLYMYXIN B; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 80052345809     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.050088-0     Document Type: Article

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