The nitric oxide reductase of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli plays an important role for the survival within macrophages

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 492-512

  Shimizu, Takeshi ^a   Tsutsuki, Hiroyasu ^a   Matsumoto, Akio ^a   Nakaya, Haruaki ^a   Noda, Masatoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE; VEROTOXIN 2;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NORV GENE; NORVS GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; MACROPHAGES; NITRIC OXIDE; OPERON; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SHIGA TOXIN 1; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864093853     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08122.x     Document Type: Article

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