A multicomponent sugar phosphate sensor system specifically induced in Bacillus cereus during infection of the insect gut

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3336-3350

  Song, Fuping ^a,b   Peng, Qi ^a,b   Brillard, Julien ^c,d   Buisson, Christophe ^a   De Been, Mark ^e   Abee, Tjakko ^e   Broussolle, Véronique ^c,d   Huang, Dafang ^b   Zhang, Jie ^b   Lereclus, Didier ^a   Nielsen LeRoux, Christina ^a,b  

^a UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UMR A 408 INRA University of Avignon   (France)

^e TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Bacterial adaptation; In vivo expression; Transcriptional promoter fusions

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPSA GENE; SPSABC GENE; SPSB GENE; SPSRK GENE; SUGAR PHOSPHATE SENSOR SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MOTHS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SUGAR PHOSPHATES;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84864758848     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-197681     Document Type: Article

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