Type-4 pili and meningococcal adhesiveness

Gene

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 149-153

  Nassif, Xavier ^a   Marceau, Michaël ^a   Pujol, Céline ^a   Pron, Bénédicte ^a   Beretti, Jean Luc ^a   Taha, Muhamed Kheir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Endothelial cells; Neisseria; PilC; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL INTERACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MENINGOCOCCUS; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0030943526     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00802-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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