The ActA polypeptides of Listeria ivanovii and Listeria monocytogenes harbor related binding sites for host microfilament proteins

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1929-1936

  Gerstel, Birgit ^a   Gröbe, Lothar ^a   Pistor, Susanne ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^b   Wehland, Jürgen ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030006456     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.6.1929-1936.1996     Document Type: Article

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