Relationships between a new type IV secretion system and the icm/dot virulence system of Legionella pneumophila

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 799-809

  Segal, Gil ^a,b   Russo, James J ^a   Shuman, Howard A ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME; CONJUGATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032701004     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01642.x     Document Type: Article

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