Evaluation of the Effects of Erythritol on Gene Expression in Brucella abortus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Rodríguez, María Cruz ^a   Viadas, Cristina ^b,c   Seoane, Asunción ^a   Sangari, Félix Javier ^a   López Goñi, Ignacio ^b   García Lobo, Juan María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHRITOL; FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; DOWN REGULATION; ERY GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SUGAR TRANSPORT; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CARBOHYDRATES; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERYTHRITOL; FRUCTOSEPHOSPHATES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; VIRULENCE;

BOVINAE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS;

EID: 84871277224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050876     Document Type: Article

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