The Yersinia pestisHmsCDE regulatory system is essential for blockage of the oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), a classic plague vector

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 947-959

  Bobrov, Alexander G ^a   Kirillina, Olga ^a   Vadyvaloo, Viveka ^b   Koestler, Benjamin J ^c   Hinz, Angela K ^b   Mack, Dietrich ^d   Waters, Christopher M ^c   Perry, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^d Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); XENOPSYLLA CHEOPIS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BIS(3',5')-CYCLIC DIGUANYLIC ACID; CYCLIC GMP; DIGUANYLATE CYCLASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; LYASE;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BIOFILM; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAGUE; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSMISSION; XENOPSYLLA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CYCLIC GMP; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PHOSPHORUS-OXYGEN LYASES; PLAGUE; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPSYLLA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84926416039     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12419     Document Type: Article

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