Attenuation of the sensing capabilities of PhoQ in transition to obligate insect-bacterial association

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Pontes, Mauricio Henriques ^a,c   Smith, Kari Lyn ^a   de Vooght, Linda ^b   van den Abbeele, Jan ^b   Dale, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPID A; PHOP PROTEIN; PHOQ PROTEIN; PHOQ SENSOR KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM; MGTA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PHOP PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PHOQ PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC CODE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; SECRETORY PATHWAY; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS; TSETSE FLY; TTSS GENE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLOSSINA (GENUS); HEXAPODA; HIPPOBOSCIDAE; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; LIPID A; MAGNESIUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 81755177817     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002349     Document Type: Article

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