Interactions of Listeria monocytogenes with mammalian cells during entry and actin-based movement: Bacterial factors, cellular ligands and signaling

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 3797-3806

  Cossart, Pascale ^a   Lecuit, Marc ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Actin polymerization; Actin based movement; Internalin; Listeria; PI 3 kinase

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL RECEPTOR; INTERNALIN A; INTERNALIN B; LISTERIOLYSIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE CLUSTER; GENOME; INTERNALIZATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; VIRULENCE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MAMMALS;

EID: 0032528059     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.14.3797     Document Type: Review

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