Genome-Wide Analysis of the Pho Regulon in a pstCA Mutant of Citrobacter rodentium

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Cheng, Catherine ^a   Wakefield, Matthew J ^a,b   Yang, Ji ^a   Tauschek, Marija ^a   Robins Browne, Roy M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEGP PROTEWIN; PHOA PROTEIN; PHOB PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; PSTCA PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL METABOLISM; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; FLAGELLUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHATES; REGULON; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; MUS; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 84870578114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050682     Document Type: Article

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