Antivirulence genes: Insights into pathogen evolution through gene loss

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4061-4070

  Bliven, Kimberly ^a   Maurelli, Anthony ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE; NADA PROTEIN; NADB PROTEIN; NICOTINATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; QUINOLINIC ACID; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIVIRULENCE GENE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOFILM; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; INHIBITION KINETICS; MACROPHAGE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHORT SURVEY; SYNTHESIS; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84870821244     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00740-12     Document Type: Short Survey

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