Release of Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin by both a specific secretion pathway and budding of outer membrane vesicles. Uptake of released toxin and vesicles by gastric epithelium

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 220-226

  Fiocca, Roberto ^d   Necchi, Vittorio ^a   Sommi, Patrizia ^a   Ricci, Vittorio ^a   Telford, John ^b   Cover, Timothy L ^c   Solcia, Enrico ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Instituto Ricerche Immunobiol Siena   (Italy)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Human Pathology ^*

Author keywords

Gastric cells; Helicobacter pylori; Outer membrane vesicles; Secretion; Toxin internalization; Vacuolating cytotoxin

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; STOMACH MUCOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL LINE; CYTOTOXINS; EPITHELIUM; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 0032982467     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199906)188:2<220::AID-PATH307>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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