Transcriptome analysis of Listeria monocytogenes exposed to biocide stress reveals a multi-system response involving cell wall synthesis, sugar uptake, and motility

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Casey, Aidan ^a   Fox, Edward M ^b   Schmitz Esser, Stephan ^c   Coffey, Aidan ^d   McAuliffe, Olivia ^a   Jordan, Kieran ^a  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Benzethonium chloride; Biocide stress; Gene expression; Listeria monocytogenes; RNA Seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

3 OXOACYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN REDUCTASE; 3 OXOACYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN SYNTHASE; ACETATE KINASE; ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; ACYLTRANSFERASE; BENZETHONIUM CHLORIDE; BIOCIDE; CARBOHYDRATE; CHEA KINASE; CHEY PROTEIN; COBALAMIN; ENOYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN REDUCTASE (NADH); FATTY ACID; FLAGELLIN; GLUCOSAMINE PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMINE FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2B; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PYRUVATE KINASE; TEICHOIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNINDEXED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 2 EPIMERASE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL MOTILITY; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOLYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

EID: 84897612403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00068     Document Type: Article

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