Concerted Action of Sphingomyelinase and Non-Hemolytic Enterotoxin in Pathogenic Bacillus cereus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Doll, Viktoria M ^a   Ehling Schulz, Monika ^b   Vogelmann, Roger ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROTOXIN; NONHEMOLYTIC ENTEROTOXIN; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL DEATH; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPHINGOMYELINASE GENE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; ENTEROTOXINS; INSECTS; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84876167626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061404     Document Type: Article

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