The interacting Cra and KdpE regulators are involved in the expression of multiple virulence factors in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2499-2508

  Njoroge, Jacqueline W ^a   Gruber, Charley ^a   Sperandio, Vanessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRA GENE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE DELETION; GENE INTERACTION; GENOMIC ISLAND; KDPE GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84877960206     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02252-12     Document Type: Article

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