A role for ActA in epithelial cell invasion by Listeria monocytogenes

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 853-864

  Suárez, Mónica ^a   González Zorn, Bruno ^a   Vega, Yolanda ^a   Chico Calero, Isabel ^a   Vázquez Boland, José A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ACTA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRFA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENOTYPE; HELA CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; INTESTINE CELL; KIDNEY CELL; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVER CELL; MICROVILLUS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOPODIUM; REGULON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VERO CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0035206338     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2001.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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