H-NST induces LEE expression and the formation of attaching and effacing lesions in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Levine, Jonathan A ^a   Hansen, Anne Marie ^a   Michalski, Jane M ^a   Hazen, Tracy H ^a   Rasko, David A ^a   Kaper, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; PROTEIN H NST; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; LOCUS OF ENTEROCYTE EFFACEMENT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PLASMID; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROCYTES; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MUTATION;

EID: 84904893766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086618     Document Type: Article

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