The RNA chaperone Hfq impacts growth, metabolism and production of virulence factors in Yersinia enterocolitica

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kakoschke, Tamara ^a   Kakoschke, Sara ^a   Magistro, Giuseppe ^a   Schubert, Sören ^a   Borath, Marc ^a   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a   Rossier, Ombeline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; GLUCOSE; INOSITOL; MANNITOL; MESSENGER RNA; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SIDEROPHORE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; FYUA PROTEIN, YERSINIA; HOST FACTOR 1; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PESTICIN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROTEOME; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UREASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; YERSINIABACTIN;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; GROWTH INHIBITION; HFQ GENE; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID TRANSPORT; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEROTYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISK DIFFUSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BACTERIOCINS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DISK DIFFUSION ANTIMICROBIAL TESTS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HOST FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; INDOLES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOLS; PROTEOME; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; THIAZOLES; UREASE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 84897557567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086113     Document Type: Article

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