Intracellular multiplication and human macrophage killing by Legionella pneumophila are inhibited by conjugal components of IncQ plasmid RSF1010

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 197-208

  Segal, Gil ^a   Shuman, Howard A ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELL KILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CYTOTOXICITY TESTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGES; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031663585     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01054.x     Document Type: Article

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