Pas, a novel protein required for protein secretion and attaching and effacing activities of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 4370-4379

  Kresse, Andreas U ^a   Schulze, Kai ^a   Deibel, Christina ^b   Ebel, Frank ^b   Rohde, Manfred ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^b   Guzmán, Carlos A ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL INVASION; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; YERSINIA;

EID: 0031754133     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.17.4370-4379.1998     Document Type: Article

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