Coordinate control of the locus of enterocyte effacement and enterohemolysin genes by multiple common virulence regulators in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4628-4637

  Iyoda, Sunao ^a   Honda, Naoko ^a   Saitoh, Takehito ^a   Shimuta, Ken ^a   Terajima, Jun ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a   Ohnishi, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENTEROHEMOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 80855140093     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05023-11     Document Type: Article

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