Listeria monocytogenes adapts to long-term stationary phase survival without compromising bacterial virulence

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 323, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-179

  Bruno, Joseph C ^a   Freitag, Nancy E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial virulence; GASP; PrfA; SigB; Stationary phase survival

Indexed keywords

PRFA PROTEIN; PROTEIN SIGB; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPROTROPH; SOIL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; SIGMA FACTOR; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80052889418     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02373.x     Document Type: Article

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