HmgR, a key enzyme in the mevalonate pathway for isoprenoid biosynthesis, is essential for growth of Listeria monocytogenes EGDe

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1684-1693

  Heuston, Sinead ^a,b   Begley, Máire ^a   Davey, Martin S ^c   Eberl, Matthias ^c   Casey, Pat G ^a   Hill, Colin ^a,b   Gahan, Cormac G M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 C METHYL DEXTRO ERYTHRITOL 4 PHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; HMGR PROTEIN; ISOPRENOID; MEVALONATE KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; IN VIVO STUDY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYMES; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER; MEVALONIC ACID; MICE; SPLEEN; TERPENES;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MURINAE;

EID: 84863678387     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.056069-0     Document Type: Article

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