Identification of two small regulatory RNAs linked to virulence in Brucella abortus 2308

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 345-360

  Caswell, Clayton C ^a   Gaines, Jennifer M ^a   Ciborowski, Pawel ^b   Smith, Derek ^c   Borchers, Christoph H ^c   Roux, Christelle M ^d   Sayood, Khalid ^e   Dunman, Paul M ^d   Roop II, R Martin ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL REGULATORY RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABCR1 GENE; ABCR2 GENE; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAB1 1794 GENE; BAB2 0612 GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MACROPHAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PROTEOME; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE;

EID: 84863567985     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08117.x     Document Type: Article

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