Investigation of the role of ZurR in the physiology and pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 327, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-125

  Dowd, Georgina C ^a,b   Casey, Pat G ^b   Begley, Maire ^a,b   Hill, Colin ^a,b   Gahan, Cormac G M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bile; Cell size; Motility; Virulence; Zinc; Zur

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZINC UPTAKE REGULATOR A GENE; ZINC UPTAKE REGULATOR R GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; ZINC;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MURINAE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84855788992     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02472.x     Document Type: Article

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