Bile salt-induced intermolecular disulfide bond formation activates Vibrio cholerae virulence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2348-2353

  Yang, Menghua ^a,b   Liu, Zhi ^a   Hughes, Chambers ^c   Stern, Andrew M ^a   Wang, Hui ^d   Zhong, Zengtao ^d   Kan, Biao ^e   Fenical, William ^c   Zhu, Jun ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE SALT; CYSTEINE; TAUROCHOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDE BOND; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CHOLERA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISULFIDES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAUROCHOLIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84873474536     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218039110     Document Type: Article

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