Anaerobic Respiration of Escherichia coli in the Mouse Intestine

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4218-4226

  Jones, Shari A ^a   Gibson, Terri ^a   Maltby, Rosalie C ^a   Chowdhury, Fatema Z ^a   Stewart, Valley ^b   Cohen, Paul S ^c   Conway, Tyrrell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; FUMARIC ACID; NAPHTHOQUINONE; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANAEROBIC RESPIRATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CECUM; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTESTINE; MALE; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FUMARATES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTESTINE, LARGE; MICE; NITRATES; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN KINASES;

EID: 80855136527     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05395-11     Document Type: Article

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