Amino acid residue Ala-62 in the FimH fimbrial adhesin is critical for the adhesiveness of meningitis-associated Escherichia coli to collagens

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1747-1757

  Pouttu, Riitta ^c   Puustlnen, Terhi ^c   Virkola, Ritva ^c   Hacker, Jörg ^a   Klemm, Per ^b   Korhonen, Timo K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; AMINO ACID; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; MENINGITIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0000521344     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01311.x     Document Type: Article

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