Formaldehyde stress responses in bacterial pathogens

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Chen, Nathan H ^a   Djoko, Karrera Y ^a   Veyrier, Frédéric J ^b   McEwan, Alastair G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Formaldehyde; Glutathione; Haemophilus; Host pathogen interactions; Neisseria

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; AMINE OXIDASE (COPPER CONTAINING); FORMALDEHYDE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

CARBON METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; DETOXIFICATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 84964330823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00257     Document Type: Review

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