Pomegranate materials inhibit flagellin gene expression and flagellar-propelled motility of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain CFT073

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 334, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 87-94

  Asadishad, Bahareh ^a   Hidalgo, Gabriela ^a   Tufenkji, Nathalie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flagellum mediated motility; Pomegranate rind extract; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; POMEGRANATE EXTRACT; PUNICALAGIN; TANNIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SCREENING; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FLIC GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; LUCIFERASES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANT EXTRACTS; PUNICACEAE; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYTHRACEAE;

EID: 84865417353     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02622.x     Document Type: Article

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