The YopB protein of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is essential for the translocation of Yop effector proteins across the target cell plasma membrane and displays a contact-dependent membrane disrupting activity

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 5812-5823

  Håkansson, Sebastian ^a   Schesser, Kurt ^a   Persson, Cathrine ^a   Galyov, Edouard E ^a,b   Rosqvist, Roland ^a   Homblé, Fabrice ^c   Wolf Watz, Hans ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Haemolysis; Pore; Translocation; Yersinia; YopB

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TARGET CELL; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS ARIES; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029908022     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00968.x     Document Type: Article

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