FNR regulates expression of important virulence factors contributing to pathogenicity of uropathogenic Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5086-5098

  Barbieri, Nicolle L ^a,b   Nicholson, Bryon ^b   Hussein, Ashraf ^b,c   Cai, Wentong ^b   Wannemuehler, Yvonne M ^b   Dell'Anna, Giuseppe ^b   Logue, Catherine M ^b   Horn, Fabiana ^a   Nolan, Lisa K ^b   Li, Ganwu ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Zagazig University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; FUMARIC ACID; HEMOLYSIN; NITRATE; RECOMBINANT DNA; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FNR PROTEIN, E COLI; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLADDER; CELL INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; FNR GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; HOST CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CBA MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; LOCOMOTION; MICE, INBRED CBA; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84911413760     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.02315-14     Document Type: Article

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