Regulation of Sialidase Production in Clostridium perfringens by the Orphan Sensor Histidine Kinase ReeS

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Hiscox, Thomas J ^a   Harrison, Paul F ^a   Chakravorty, Anjana ^a   Choo, Jocelyn M ^a   Ohtani, Kaori ^b   Shimizu, Tohru ^b   Cheung, Jackie K ^a   Rood, Julian I ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR OF EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES SENSOR; SIALIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GAS GANGRENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NANI GENE; NANJ GENE; NONHUMAN; REGULATOR OF EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES SENSOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; NEURAMINIDASE; PROTEIN KINASES;

EID: 84883442368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073525     Document Type: Article

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