icmT is essential for pore formation-mediated egress of Legionella pneumophila from mammalian and protozoan cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-78

  Molmeret, M ^a   Alli, O A T ^a   Zink, S ^a   Flieger, A ^a   Cianciotto, N P ^a   Abu Kwaik, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; GENE PRODUCT; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A; POLYTHYMIDYLIC ACID; PROTEIN ICMT; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIVISION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ENZYME RELEASE; GENE INSERTION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COSMIDS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LIPOLYSIS; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MACROPHAGES; MAMMALS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MONOACYLGLYCEROL LIPASES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; U937 CELLS;

EID: 0036137082     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.1.69-78.2002     Document Type: Article

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