CodY regulation is required for full virulence and heme iron acquisition in Bacillus anthracis

FASEB Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4445-4456

  Château, Alice ^a,b   Van Schaik, Willem ^a,b,c   Six, Anne ^a,d   Aucher, Willy ^a,b   Fouet, Agnès ^a,b,d,e  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Anthrax; Capsule; Dissemination; Toxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN CODY; HEME; IRON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; ATXA BACTERIAL GENE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL SPREADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL GUINEA PIG; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; IRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; HEME; IRON; MICE; MUTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 82655173726     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-188912     Document Type: Article

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