Chlamydia trachomatis plasmid-encoded pgp4 is a transcriptional regulator of virulence-associated genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 636-644

  Song, Lihua ^a   Carlson, John H ^a   Whitmire, William M ^a   Kari, Laszlo ^a   Virtaneva, Kimmo ^a   Sturdevant, Daniel E ^a   Watkins, Heather ^a   Zhou, Bing ^a   Sturdevant, Gail L ^a   Porcella, Stephen F ^a   McClarty, Grant ^b   Caldwell, Harlan D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICE; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84874738833     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01305-12     Document Type: Article

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