Phylogenetic group-associated differences in regulation of the common colonization factor Mat fimbria in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1200-1222

  Lehti, Timo A ^a   Bauchart, Philippe ^b,d   Kukkonen, Maini ^a,e   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^b,c   Korhonen, Timo K ^a   Westerlund Wikström, Benita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ADHESIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ACIDITY; ADHERENT INVASIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ARTICLE; AVIAN PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROAGGREGATIVE ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC REGULATION; MAT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PH; PHYLOGENY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84874987976     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12161     Document Type: Article

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