Transcriptional regulator pera influences biofilm-associated, platelet binding, and metabolic gene expression in enterococcus faecalis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Maddox, Scott M ^a   Coburn, Phillip S ^b   Shankar, Nathan ^b   Conway, Tyrrell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PERA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING KINETICS; BIOFILM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULON; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PERITONITIS; PHENOTYPE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; PERA;

ANIMALS; BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PLATELETS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PERITONITIS; PHENOTYPE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84859335265     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034398     Document Type: Article

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