PepA, a secreted protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is necessary for cytotoxicity and virulence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 807-818

  Hauser, Alan R ^a   Kang, Pil Jung ^a,b   Engel, Joanne N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031917203     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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