Motility is required to initiate host cell invasion by Yersinia enterocolitica

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 4323-4326

  Young, Glenn M ^a,d   Badger, Julie L ^b,e   Miller, Virginia L ^a,b,c  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVASIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CONTACT; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CENTRIFUGATION; FLAGELLUM; GENE MUTATION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REGULON; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0033945351     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.4323-4326.2000     Document Type: Article

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