The two-component systems PrrBA and NtrYX co-ordinately regulate the adaptation of Brucella abortus to an oxygen-limited environment

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 222-233

  Carrica, Mariela del Carmen ^a   Fernandez, Ignacio ^a   Sieira, Rodrigo ^a   Paris, Gastón ^a   Goldbaum, Fernando Alberto ^a  

^a FUNDACIÓN INSTITUTO LELOIR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OXYGEN; PROTEIN FNRN; PROTEIN NNRA; PROTEIN NTRY; PROTEIN NTRYX; PROTEIN PRRBA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHROME OXIDASE GENE; DENITRIFICATION; MAMMAL CELL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NTRY GENE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PRRB GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS BIOVAR ABORTUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876164095     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12181     Document Type: Article

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