Rhodococcus equi's extreme resistance to hydrogen peroxide is mainly conferred by one of its four catalase genes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Bidaud, Pauline ^a   Hébert, Laurent ^a   Barbey, Corinne ^a,c   Appourchaux, Anne Cécile ^a,d   Torelli, Riccardo ^b   Sanguinetti, Maurizio ^b   Laugier, Claire ^a   Petry, Sandrine ^a  

^a FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^d Biology and Innovative Therapeutics for Ovarian Cancers group   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; KATA GENE; KATB GENE; KATC GENE; KATD GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYLOGENY; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

MURINAE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 84864706342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042396     Document Type: Article

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