Reduced virulence of the vibrio cholerae fadD mutant is due to induction of the extracytoplasmic stress response

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3935-3941

  Chatterjee, Epshita ^a   Chowdhury, Rukhsana ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HEMOGLOBIN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; RNA 16S; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LETHALITY; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STRESS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ILEUM; MUTATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RABBITS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884410602     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00722-13     Document Type: Article

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