The N-terminus of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) Tir mediates transport across bacterial and eukaryotic cell membranes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 855-868

  Crawford, J Adam ^a   Kaper, James B ^a  

^a University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; INTIMIN; INTIMIN RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE CYA; GENE FUSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HELA CELL; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036440902     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03214.x     Document Type: Article

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