The broadly conserved regulator PhoP links pathogen virulence and membrane potential in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 145-163

  Alteri, Christopher J ^a   Lindner, Jonathon R ^a   Reiss, Daniel J ^a   Smith, Sara N ^a   Mobley, Harry L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; PHOP PROTEIN; POLYMYXIN B; PROTON;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOP GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; VIRULENCE;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80053222647     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07804.x     Document Type: Article

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