The Molecular Basis for Control of ETEC Enterotoxin Expression in Response to Environment and Host

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-16

  Haycocks, James R J ^a   Sharma, Prateek ^a   Stringer, Anne M ^b   Wade, Joseph T ^b,c   Grainger, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; GLUCOSE; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENTEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELTAB GENE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTA1 GENE; ESTA2 GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; HOST; HOST CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CACO 2 CELL LINE; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CACO-2 CELLS; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 84921838257     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004605     Document Type: Article

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