Fur is the master regulator of the extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli response to serum

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Huja, Sagi ^a   Oren, Yaara ^a   Biran, Dvora ^a   Meyer, Susann ^b   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^c   Bernhard, Joerg ^b   Becher, Doerte ^b   Hecker, Michael ^b   Sorek, Rotem ^d   Ron, Eliora Z ^a,e  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENT; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BASR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATING PROTEINS, BACTERIAL; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEATING; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLIC STRESS; NONHUMAN; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; SERUM; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL GENOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PROTEOMICS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SERUM;

EID: 84908300971     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01460-14     Document Type: Article

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