Chlamydia exploit the mammalian tryptophan-depletion defense strategy as a counter-defensive cue to trigger a survival state of persistence

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Bonner, Carol A ^a   Byrne, Gerald I ^b   Jensen, Roy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydiae; Down Trp selection; Menaquinone biosynthesis; Persistence; Reductive evolution; Tryptophan; Up Trp selection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CHORISMIC ACID; GAMMA INTERFERON; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INDOLE; INDOLEAMINE 2,3 DIOXYGENASE; KYNURENINE; MENAQUINONE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORTER; PERMEASE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PROTEOME; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

CELL DIVISION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA PECORUM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; COXIELLA BURNETII; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; REVIEW; TAXON; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; ANIMAL; CHLAMYDIAE; DOWN-TRP SELECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MENAQUINONE BIOSYNTHESIS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PERSISTENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REDUCTIVE EVOLUTION; UP-TRP SELECTION;

CHLAMYDIAE; DOWN-TRP SELECTION; MENAQUINONE BIOSYNTHESIS; PERSISTENCE; REDUCTIVE EVOLUTION; TRYPTOPHAN; UP-TRP SELECTION;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84897918456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00017     Document Type: Review

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