Epigenetic regulation of the nitrosative stress response and intracellular macrophage survival by extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 908-925

  Bateman, Stacey L ^a   Seed, Patrick C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN FIMX; PROTEIN HMPA; PROTEIN HYXR; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME SIZE; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE INVERSION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84857363823     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.07977.x     Document Type: Article

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