Two-component systems are involved in the regulation of botulinum neurotoxin synthesis in clostridium botulinum type a strain Hall

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Connan, Chloé ^a   Brueggemann, Holger ^b   Mazuet, Christelle ^a   Raffestin, Stéphanie ^a   Cayet, Nadège ^a   Popoff, Michel R ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTP GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLYSIS; BONTULINUM TOXIN A GENE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM TYPE A; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BOTULINUM TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; MICE; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864832696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041848     Document Type: Article

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