Type III machines of gram-negative pathogens: Injecting virulence factors into host cells and more

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-24

  Anderson, Deborah M ^a   Schneewind, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; DOCKING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INTERNALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0033061306     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(99)80003-4     Document Type: Article

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