The production and detoxification of a potent cytotoxin, nitric oxide, by pathogenic enteric bacteria

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1876-1879

  Arkenberg, Anke ^a   Runkel, Sebastian ^a   Richardson, David J ^a   Rowley, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Nitrate respiration; Nitric oxide detoxification; Nitrous oxide; Pathogenicity; Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; LYSOZYME; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOSTASIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DENITRIFICATION; DETOXIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HABITAT; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE; MACROPHAGE; NITRATE METABOLISM; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; UPREGULATION;

CYTOTOXINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEALTH; HUMANS; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 81855212390     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20110716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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