HtrA is a major virulence determinant of Bacillus anthracis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1542-1559

  Chitlaru, Theodor ^a   Zaide, Galia ^a   Ehrlich, Sharon ^a   Inbar, Itzhak ^a   Cohen, Ofer ^a   Shafferman, Avigdor ^a  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; HIGH TEMPERATURE REQUIREMENT A PROTEIN; NEUTRAL PROTEASE A; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHRAX; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL ASSAY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EA1 GENE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE REQUIREMENT A GENE; HTRA GENE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; LD 50; MACROPHAGE INFECTION ASSAY; NONHUMAN; NPRA GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SAP GENE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ETHANOL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GUINEA PIGS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MACROPHAGES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEOME; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CAVIA;

EID: 80052697246     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07790.x     Document Type: Article

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