Systems Level Analyses Reveal Multiple Regulatory Activities of CodY Controlling Metabolism, Motility and Virulence in Listeria monocytogenes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Lobel, Lior ^a   Herskovits, Anat A ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LIGAND; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ACTA GENE; ADAPTATION; ARG GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FLA GENE; GADG GENE; GDHA GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLNR GENE; GLPF GENE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIS GENE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; POXB GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGB GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CACO-2 CELL LINE; CELL ADHESION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FLAGELLUM; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; REGULON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL ADHESION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84959918141     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005870     Document Type: Article

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