Regulation of toxin production in clostridium perfringens

Toxins

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Ohtani, Kaori ^a,b   Shimizu, Tohru ^b  

^a Miyarisan Pharmaceutical Co   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. perfringens; Regulatory network

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; S RIBOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; SIALIDASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLA GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PFOA GENE; PLC GENE; QUORUM SENSING; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84977530708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins8070207     Document Type: Review

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