Thermosensing to adjust bacterial virulence in a fluctuating environment

Future Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 85-105

  Steinmann, Rebekka ^a   Dersch, Petra ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA topology; protein thermometer; RNA thermoswitch; thermosensors; virulence regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; REVIEW; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA TRANSLATION; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84871425304     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.12.129     Document Type: Review

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