The autolysin Ami contributes to the adhesion of Listeria monocytogenes to eukaryotic cells via its cell wall anchor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1212-1224

  Milohanic, Eliane ^a   Jonquières, Renaud ^b   Cossart, Pascale ^b   Berche, Patrick ^a   Gaillard, Jean Louis ^a,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL DNA; DIPEPTIDE; DNA FRAGMENT; F ACTIN; PROTEIN AMI; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MELANOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL WALL; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; INIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS;

EID: 0035103227     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02208.x     Document Type: Article

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