Using the yeast two-hybrid system to identify human epithelial cell proteins that bind gonococcal Opa proteins: Intracellular gonococci bind pyruvate kinase via their Opa proteins and require host pyruvate for growth

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 171-186

  Williams, John M ^a   Chen, Gi Chung ^a   Zhu, Li ^b   Rest, Richard F ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CLONTECH Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PYRUVATE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL ADHESION; DNA LIBRARY; HELA CELL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TECHNIQUE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; ELECTROPORATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRUVATE KINASE; PYRUVATES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031983016     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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