Phenotypic diversity caused by differential RpoS activity among environmental Escherichia coli isolates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 7915-7923

  Chiang, Sarah M ^a   Dong, Tao ^a,c   Edge, Thomas A ^b   Schellhorn, Herb E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MUTATION; BACTERIAL POPULATION; CARBON SOURCE; CATALASE ACTIVITY; E. COLI; ENTERIC BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ISOLATES; FECAL POLLUTION; LAKE ONTARIO; LOWER STRESS; PARENTAL STRAINS; PATHOGENIC STRAINS; PHENOTYPIC DIFFERENCES; PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY; SELECTIVE PRESSURE; SIGMA FACTOR; STATIONARY PHASE; STRESS RESPONSE; URBAN BEACHES;

BACTERIA; LAKES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; CATALASE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SUCCINIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; CARBON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECAL COLIFORM; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CANADA; CARBON; CATALASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SUCCINIC ACID;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO;

EID: 83055180134     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05274-11     Document Type: Article

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