The Spx regulator modulates stress responses and virulence in Enterococcus faecalis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2265-2275

  Kajfasz, Jessica K ^a   Mendoza, Jorge E ^a   Gaca, Anthony O ^a   Miller, James H ^a   Koselny, Kristy A ^a   Giambiagi deMarval, Marcia ^b   Wellington, Melanie ^a   Abranches, Jacqueline ^a   Lemos, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SPX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL KILLING; COMPUTER MODEL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FOREIGN BODY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FOREIGN BODIES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; OXIDANTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERITONITIS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84864822573     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00026-12     Document Type: Article

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