The conserved nhaar operon is drastically divergent between b2 and non-b2 escherichia coli and is involved in extra-intestinal virulence

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Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Lescat, Mathilde ^a,b   Reibel, Florence ^a   Pintard, Coralie ^a   Dion, Sara ^a,c   Glodt, Jérémy ^a,c   Gateau, Cecile ^a   Launay, Adrien ^a   Ledda, Alice ^a   Cruvellier, Stephane ^d   Tourret, Jérôme ^a,e   Tenaillon, Olivier ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL JEAN VERDIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d UniversitCrossed D Sign Paris Saclay   (France)

^e PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; NHAA PROTEIN, E COLI; NHAR PROTEIN, E COLI; SODIUM PROTON EXCHANGE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NHAA GENE; NHAAR GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PH; PLASMID; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; OSMOLARITY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICE; OPERON; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEPSIS; SODIUM-HYDROGEN ANTIPORTER; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84907495396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108738     Document Type: Article

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