Contribution of Individual Ebp Pilus Subunits of Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF to Pilus Biogenesis, Biofilm Formation and Urinary Tract Infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Sillanpää, Jouko ^a   Chang, Chungyu ^a   Singh, Kavindra V ^a   Montealegre, Maria Camila ^a   Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R ^a   Harvey, Barrett R ^a   Ton That, Hung ^a   Murray, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; BIOGENESIS; BPS GENE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; EBPA GENE; EBPB GENE; EBPC GENE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SRTA GENE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; BIOGENESIS; CELL WALL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84880065717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068813     Document Type: Article

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