Two enteropathogenic Escherichia coli type III secreted proteins, EspA and EspB, are virulence factors

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1907-1916

  Abe, Akio ^a,b   Heczko, Ursula ^a   Hegele, Richard G ^a   Finlay, B Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attaching and effacing lesion; Cytoskeletal rearrangement; Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; Esp proteins; Type III secretion system

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CYTOSKELETON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RABBIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PEYER'S PATCHES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RABBITS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032538914     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.10.1907     Document Type: Article

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