Secreted enzymatic activities of wild-type and pilD-deficient Legionella pneumophila

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1855-1863

  Aragon, Virginia ^a   Kurtz, Sherry ^a   Flieger, Antje ^b   Neumeister, Birgid ^b   Cianciotto, Nicholas P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGES; MONOACYLGLYCEROL LIPASES; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; RIBONUCLEASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; U937 CELLS;

EID: 0034021895     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.4.1855-1863.2000     Document Type: Article

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