Involvement of Enterococcus faecalis small RNAs in stress response and virulence

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3599-3611

  Michaux, Charlotte ^a,g   Hartke, Axel ^a   Martini, Cecilia ^a,c   Reiss, Swantje ^d   Albrecht, Dirk ^d   Budin Verneuil, Aurélie ^a   Sanguinetti, Maurizio ^c   Engelmann, Susanne ^d,f   Hain, Torsten ^e   Verneuil, Nicolas ^a   Giard, Jean Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; ARGININE TRANSFER RNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84906061867     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01900-14     Document Type: Article

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