Chitinase expression in Listeria monocytogenes is positively regulated by the Agr system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Paspaliari, Dafni Katerina ^a   Mollerup, Maria Storm ^b   Kallipolitis, Birgitte H ^b   Ingmer, Hanne ^a   Larsen, Marianne Halberg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITINASE; LHRA PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ACCESSORY GENE REGULATOR SYSTEM; AGRD GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CHIA GENE; CHIB GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROLYSIS; LHRA GENE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; RIBOSOME; ENZYMOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHITIN; CHITINASE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899700506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095385     Document Type: Article

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