Identification of the Helicobacter pylori VacA toxin domain active in the cell cytosol

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 6014-6016

  De Bernard, Marina ^a   Burroni, Daniela ^b   Papini, Emanuele ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^b   Telford, John ^b   Montecucco, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOSOL; DELETION MUTANT; HELA CELL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0031741917     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.12.6014-6016.1998     Document Type: Article

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