Critical role of the N-terminal residues of listeriolysin O in phagosomal escape and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 367-379

  Lety, Marie Annick ^a   Frehel, Claude ^a   Berche, Patrick ^a   Charbit, Alain ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; LISTERIOLYSIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE MUTATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BONE MARROW; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHAGOSOMES; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036428677     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03176.x     Document Type: Article

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