Acidic pH sensing in the bacterial cytoplasm is required for Salmonella virulence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1024-1038

  Choi, Jeongjoon ^a   Groisman, Eduardo A ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; MAGNESIUM ION; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ACIDITY; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOP ACTIVATED GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA BONGORI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84985952528     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13439     Document Type: Article

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