Type III machines of pathogenic yersiniae secrete virulence factors into the extracellular milieu

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1619-1629

  Lee, Vincent T ^a   Schneewind, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; YERSINIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA;

EID: 0033028599     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01270.x     Document Type: Article

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