Insights into the CtrA regulon in development of stress resistance in obligatory intracellular pathogen Ehrlichia chaffeensis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1217-1234

  Cheng, Zhihui ^a   Miura, Koshiro ^a,c   Popov, Vsevolod L ^b   Kumagai, Yumi ^a,d   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN ASSOCIATED LIPOPROTEIN; STATIONARY PHASE SURVIVAL PROTEIN; STRESS INDUCED MORPHOGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BOLA GENE; CELL GROWTH; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTRA GENE; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LACZ GENE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULON; SURE GENE; UPREGULATION;

CELL LINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MONOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 82155168196     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07885.x     Document Type: Article

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