Expression and Quorum Sensing Regulation of Type III Secretion System Genes of Vibrio harveyi during Infection of Gnotobiotic Brine Shrimp

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Darshanee Ruwandeepika, H A ^a,b   Karunasagar, Indrani ^b   Bossier, Peter ^c   Defoirdt, Tom ^c  

^a SABARAGAMUWA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

^b NITTE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; HOST FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LUXR; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTEMIA FRANCISCANA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GNOTOBIOTICS; HOST; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVA; LUXR GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; QUORUM SENSING; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; VCRD GENE; VHP GENE; VIBRIO HARVEYI; VIBRIOSIS; VOPD GENE; VSCP GENE; ANIMAL; ARTEMIA; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BIOSYNTHESIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; ARTEMIA; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; QUORUM SENSING; VIBRIO; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

EID: 84955505799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143935     Document Type: Article

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