Key role for the alternative sigma factor, SigH, in the intracellular life of mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis during macrophage stress

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2242-2257

  Ghosh, Pallab ^a   Wu, Chia wei ^a   Talaat, Adel M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR H; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STRESS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE CONTROL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; IRON METABOLISM; IRON STORAGE; LIPID METABOLISM; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MICROENVIRONMENT; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; PHAGOLYSOSOME; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; RNA SEQUENCE; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PHAGOSOMES; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84877805486     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01273-12     Document Type: Article

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