Constitutive Type VI Secretion System Expression Gives Vibrio cholerae Intra- and Interspecific Competitive Advantages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Unterweger, Daniel ^a   Kitaoka, Maya ^a,c   Miyata, Sarah T ^a   Bachmann, Verena ^a   Brooks, Teresa M ^a   Moloney, Jessica ^a   Sosa, Oscar ^b,d   Silva, David ^b   Duran Gonzalez, Jorge ^b   Provenzano, Daniele ^b   Pukatzki, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTEIN VASH; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LUXO GENE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TSRA GENE; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMOEBA (GENUS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84868131365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048320     Document Type: Article

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