An O Island 172 Encoded RNA Helicase Regulates the Motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Yanmei ^a,b,c   Xu, Xuefang ^a,b,c   Lan, Ruiting ^d   Xiong, Yanwen ^a,b,c   Ye, Changyun ^a,b,c   Ren, Zhihong ^a,b,c   Liu, Li ^e   Zhao, Ailan ^a,b,c   Wu, Long Fei ^f   Xu, Jianguo ^a,b,c  

^a State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (China CDC)   (China)

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

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; RNA HELICASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL GROWTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FLAGELLUM; FLIA GENE; FLIC GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; MOTILITY ASSOCIATED O ISLAND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALMONELLA; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENOMIC ISLANDS; RNA HELICASES; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84879063503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064211     Document Type: Article

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