An oxaloacetate decarboxylase homologue protein influences the intracellular survival of Legionella pneumophila

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 273-279

  Jain, Bunty ^a   Brand, Bettina C ^a   Lück, P Christian ^b   Di Berardino, Marco ^c   Dimroth, Peter ^c   Hacker, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intracellular survival; Legionella pneumophila; Oxaloacetate decarboxylase

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLYASE; OXALOACETIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBOXY-LYASES; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTES; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAVIA PORCELLUS; EUKARYOTA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030561310     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00424-7     Document Type: Article

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