General stress sigma factor RpoS influences time required to enter the viable but non-culturable state in Salmonella enterica

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 228-237

  Kusumoto, Akiko ^a   Asakura, Hiroshi ^b   Kawamoto, Keiko ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Osmotic stress; RpoS; Stress response; VBNC

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PLASMID; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RPOS GENE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA DUBLIN; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ORANIENBURG; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; START CODON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIABLE BUT NON CULTURABLE BACTERIUM STATE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SIGMA FACTOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR DUBLIN; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR ORANIENBURG; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84859862679     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2012.00428.x     Document Type: Article

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