Evolutionary silence of the acid chaperone protein HdeB in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157: H7

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1004-1014

  Carter, Michelle Q ^a   Louie, Jacqueline W ^a   Fagerquist, Clifton K ^a   Sultan, Omar ^a   Miller, William G ^a   Mandrell, Robert E ^a  

^a WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID SURVIVAL; CELL SURVIVAL; DIVERGENT EVOLUTION; E. COLI; E.COLI O157:H7; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH CONDITIONS; PERIPLASMIC CHAPERONE; POINT MUTATIONS; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; RESISTANCE MECHANISMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACID RESISTANCE; CYTOLOGY; GENES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HDEA PROTEIN, E COLI; HDEB PROTEIN, E COLI;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; PH; PROTEIN; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; START CODON;

ACIDS; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 84857094429     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07033-11     Document Type: Article

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