Listeria monocytogenes is resistant to lysozyme through the regulation, not the acquisition, of cell wall-modifying enzymes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 3756-3767

  Burke, Thomas P ^a   Loukitcheva, Anastasia ^a   Zemansky, Jason ^a   Wheeler, Richard ^b,c   Boneca, Ivo G ^b,c   Portnoy, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; LYSOZYME; PEPTIDOGLYCAN DEACETYLASE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DEGU; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; AMIDASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGU GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SCREENING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PBPX GENE; PGDA GENE; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RLI31 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMS; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MURAMIDASE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84907835237     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02053-14     Document Type: Article

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