Interactions of pathogenic Neisseriae with epithelial cell membranes

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 16, Issue , 2000, Pages 423-457

  Merz, A J ^a   So, M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Cytoskeleton; Epithelium; Phagosome; Type IV pili

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CELL RECEPTOR; INVASIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GONORRHEA; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCYTOSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0034518454     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.16.1.423     Document Type: Review

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