The cytolethal distending toxin from the chancroid bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi induces cell-cycle arrest in the G2 phase

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-115

  Cortes Bratti, Ximena ^a   Chaves Olarte, Esteban ^a   Lagergård, Teresa ^b   Thelestam, Monica ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; DNA; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; RHO FACTOR; TYROSINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHINESE HAMSTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCUS MOLLE;

EID: 0032893106     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI3831     Document Type: Article

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