A novel antisense RNA from the salmonella virulence plasmid pSLT expressed by non-growing bacteria inside eukaryotic cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Gonzalo Asensio, Jesús ^a,c   Ortega, Álvaro D ^a   Rico Pérez, Gadea ^a   Pucciarelli, M Graciela ^b   García del Portillo, Francisco ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; PROTEIN PSLT047; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL RNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CELL LINE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; IESR 1 GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PSLT046 GENE; PSLT047 GENE; RAT; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIRULENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84906921672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077939     Document Type: Article

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