The 70-kb virulence plasmid enables Yersinia spp.(Yersinia pestis, Y. pseudotuberculosis,
and Y. enterocolitica) to survive and multiply in the lymphoid tissues of their host. It encodes …

The effect of the bacterial heat-stable nucleoid-structuring (H-NS) protein on gene
expression is overwhelmingly negative and extends throughout the genome, pointing to an …

A list of currently identified gene products of Escherichia coli is given, together with a
bibliography that provides pointers to the literature on each gene product. A scheme to …

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) cause
significant morbidity and mortality worldwide (18, 60, 63). Though these E. coli pathotypes …

The RTX (repeats in toxin) cytolytic toxins r represent a family of important virulence factors
that have disseminated widely among Gram-negative bacteria. They are characterised by a …

H‐NS is one of the two most abundant proteins in the bacterial nucleoid and influences the
expression of a number of genes. We have studied the interaction of H‐NS with DNA; …

This map is an update of the edition 9 map by Berlyn et al.(MKB Berlyn, KB Low, and KE
Rudd, p. 1715–1902, in FC Neidhardt et al., ed., Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular …

The Yersinia pestis plasmid pCD1‐encoded type III secretion system (T3SS) is essential for
the pathogenicity of Y. pestis in mammalian hosts. T3SS‐associated genes are maximally …

During infection of its hosts, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium)
enters the epithelial cells of the small intestine. This process requires a number of invasion …

In enterobacteria, AT-rich horizontally acquired genes, including virulence genes, are
silenced through the actions of at least three nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs): H-NS …