A Family of Indoles Regulate Virulence and Shiga Toxin Production in Pathogenic E. coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bommarius, Bettina ^a   Anyanful, Akwasi ^a   Izrayelit, Yevgeniy ^b   Bhatt, Shantanu ^a   Cartwright, Emily ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Swimm, Alyson I ^a   Benian, Guy M ^a   Schroeder, Frank C ^b   Kalman, Daniel ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 INDOLECARBALDEHYDE; INDOLE; INDOLEACETIC ACID; SHIGA TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOFILM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE CELL; LETHALITY; METABOLOMICS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; INDOLES; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SHIGA TOXIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84872804776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054456     Document Type: Article

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