IscR Is Essential for Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Type III Secretion and Virulence

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Miller, Halie K ^a   Kwuan, Laura ^a   Schwiesow, Leah ^a   Bernick, David L ^b   Mettert, Erin ^c   Ramirez, Hector A ^a   Ragle, James M ^a   Chan, Patricia P ^b   Kiley, Patricia J ^c   Lowe, Todd M ^b   Auerbuch, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON SULFUR CLUSTER REGULATOR; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LCRF; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ISCR PROTEIN, E COLI; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDEL MUTATION; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MOTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PEYER PATCH; PLASMID; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSPOSON; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BINDING SITE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; LYMPH NODE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SPLEEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BINDING SITES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIVER; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEYER'S PATCHES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84903462842     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004194     Document Type: Article

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