Role of energy sensor TlpD of helicobacter pylori in Gerbil colonization and genome analyses after adaptation in the Gerbil

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3534-3551

  Behrens, Wiebke ^a   Schweinitzer, Tobias ^a,c   Bal, Joena ^a   Dorsch, Martina ^a   Bleich, André ^a   Kops, Friederike ^a   Brenneke, Birgit ^a   Didelot, Xavier ^b   Suerbaum, Sebastian ^a   Josenhans, Christine ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BEIERSDORF AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TLPD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY YIELD; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERBIL; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; START CODON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER STATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GERBILLINAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOVEMENT; MUTATION;

EID: 84884399076     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00750-13     Document Type: Article

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