Expression of listeriolysin O and ActA by intracellular and extracellular Listeria monocytogenes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 131-139

  Moors, Marlena A ^a,d   Levitt, Brian ^a   Youngman, Philip ^b,e   Portnoy, Daniel A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^e MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; LISTERIOLYSIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0032952803     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.1.131-139.1999     Document Type: Article

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