Alkaline pH Is a Signal for Optimal Production and Secretion of the Heat Labile Toxin, LT in Enterotoxigenic Escherichia Coli (ETEC)

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Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Gonzales, Lucia ^a,b   Ali, Zahra Bagher ^a   Nygren, Erik ^a   Wang, Zhiyun ^c   Karlsson, Stefan ^a   Zhu, Baoli ^c   Quiding Järbrink, Marianne ^a   Sjöling, Åsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN;

ALKALINITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ENZYME REGULATION; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; RECEPTORS, CYCLIC AMP; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884249556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074069     Document Type: Article

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