Role of bundle-forming pilus of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in host cell adherence and in microcolony development

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 579-585

  Tobe, Toru ^a,b   Sasakawa, Chihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL EXTRACT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CACO-2 CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034849007     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2001.00136.x     Document Type: Article

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