Amoeba host-Legionella synchronization of amino acid auxotrophy and its role in bacterial adaptation and pathogenic evolution

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 350-358

  Price, Christopher T D ^a   Richards, Ashley M ^a   Von Dwingelo, Juanita E ^a   Samara, Hala A ^a   Abu Kwaik, Yousef ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

AMINO ACID; ANKYRIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITINATED PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); CELL VACUOLE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACIDS; AMOEBA; ANKYRINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CYSTEINE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; UBIQUITINATED PROTEINS; VACUOLES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84892956453     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12290     Document Type: Review

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