Delineation of pilin domains required for bacterial association into microcolonies and intestinal colonization by Vibrio cholerae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 896-910

  Kirn, Thomas J ^a   Lafferty, Margaret J ^a   Sandoe, Carola M P ^a   Taylor, Ronald K ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PILIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIOPHAGE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0033951396     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01764.x     Document Type: Article

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