Adhesion of Escherichia coli to HeLa cells mediated by Trypanosoma cruzi surface glycoprotein-derived peptides inserted in the outer membrane protein LamB

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4908-4911

  Pereira, Cátia M ^a   Favoreto Jr , Sílvio ^a   Da Silveira, José Franco ^a   Yoshida, Nobuko ^a   Castilho, Beatriz A ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Disc de Microbiologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELA CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032774137     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.9.4908-4911.1999     Document Type: Article

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