The Enterococcus faecium Enterococcal Biofilm Regulator, EbrB, Regulates the esp Operon and Is Implicated in Biofilm Formation and Intestinal Colonization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Top, Janetta ^a   Paganelli, Fernanda L ^a   Zhang, Xinglin ^a   van Schaik, Willem ^a   Leavis, Helen L ^a   van Luit Asbroek, Miranda ^a   van der Poll, Tom ^b   Leendertse, Masja ^b   Bonten, Marc J M ^a   Willems, Rob J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; EBRB PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOFILM; CELL DENSITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUORUM SENSING; SMALL INTESTINE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 84878535648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065224     Document Type: Article

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