Identification of MrtAB, an ABC Transporter Specifically Required for Yersinia pseudotuberculosis to Colonize the Mesenteric Lymph Nodes

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Crimmins, Gregory T ^a   Mohammadi, Sina ^a   Green, Erin R ^a   Bergman, Molly A ^a,b   Isberg, Ralph R ^a   Mecsas, Joan ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ETHIDIUM BROMIDE; MRTAB PROTEIN; PYOCYANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; LETHALITY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; LYMPH NODES; MESENTERY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

MAMMALIA; MUS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84866158013     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002828     Document Type: Article

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