Global Transcriptional and Phenotypic Analyses of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strain Xuzhou21 and Its pO157_Sal Cured Mutant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Hongqing ^a   Chen, Chen ^a   Xiong, Yanwen ^a   Xu, Xuefang ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^b   Wang, Haiyin ^a   Yao, Xinyue ^a   Bai, Xiangning ^a   Liu, Xuetong ^a   Meng, Qiong ^a   Zhang, Xiaoai ^c   Sun, Hui ^a   Zhao, Ailan ^a   Bai, Xuemei ^a   Cheng, Yuli ^a   Chen, Qiang ^a   Ye, Changyun ^a   Xu, Jianguo ^a  

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYCHOLATE SODIUM; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLASMID VECTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CULTURE MEDIUM; DAM GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MDTA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OSMY GENE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHENOTYPE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MUTATION; OSMOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84878482722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065466     Document Type: Article

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