The metabolic regulator CodY links Listeria monocytogenes metabolism to virulence by directly activating the virulence regulatory gene prfA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 624-644

  Lobel, Lior ^a   Sigal, Nadejda ^a   Borovok, Ilya ^a   Belitsky, Boris R ^b   Sonenshein, Abraham L ^b   Herskovits, Anat A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN CODY; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE PHOSPHATE; PRFA PROTEIN, LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CODY GENE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRFA GENE; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALIA; MUS;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; OPERON; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; UP-REGULATION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84922572016     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12890     Document Type: Article

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