The V-antigen of Yersinia is surface exposed before target cell contact and involved in virulence protein translocation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 961-976

  Pettersson, Jonas ^a   Holmström, Anna ^b   Hill, Jim ^c   Leary, Sophie ^c   Frithz Lindsten, Elisabet ^b   Von Euler Matell, Anne ^d   Carlsson, Eva ^a   Titball, Richard ^c   Forsberg, Åke ^b   Wolf Watz, Hans ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CYTOSOL; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TARGET CELL; YERSINIA;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYTOSOL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE DELETION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA;

EID: 0033027311     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01408.x     Document Type: Article

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