Carbon storage regulator a contributes to the virulence of haemophilus ducreyi in humans by multiple mechanisms

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 608-617

  Gangaiah, Dharanesh ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Fortney, Kate R ^a   Janowicz, Diane M ^a   Ellinger, Sheila ^a   Zwickl, Beth ^a   Katz, Barry P ^a   Spinola, Stanley M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON STORAGE REGULATOR A; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FIBROBLAST; GENE DELETION; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HEAT SHOCK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INOCULATION; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; CHANCROID; FIBROBLASTS; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MACROPHAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASES, NON-RECEPTOR; SEQUENCE DELETION; VIRULENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873032519     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01239-12     Document Type: Article

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