Two regulators of Vibrio parahaemolyticus play important roles in enterotoxicity by controlling the expression of genes in the Vp-PAI region.

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important pathogen causing food-borne disease worldwide. An 80-kb pathogenicity island (Vp-PAI), which contains two tdh (thermostable direct hemolysin) genes and a set of genes for the type III secretion system (T3SS2), is closely related to the pathogenicity of this ba...

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Main Authors: Toshio Kodama, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Hirotaka Hiyoshi, Mikiharu Morita, Kaori Izutsu, Yukihiro Akeda, Kwon-Sam Park, Vlademir V Cantarelli, Rikard Dryselius, Tetsuya Iida, Takeshi Honda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2800187?pdf=render