Translocation of YopE and YopN into eukaryotic cells by Yersinia pestis yopN, tyeA, sycN, yscB and lcrG deletion mutants measured using a phosphorylatable peptide tag and phosphospecific antibodies

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 807-823

  Day, James B ^a,b   Ferracci, Franco ^a   Plano, Gregory V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHORUS DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN ELK; PROTEIN LCRG; PROTEIN SYCN; PROTEIN TYEA; PROTEIN YOPN; PROTEIN YSCB; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; YERSINIA OUTER PROTEIN E;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL CONTACT; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HELA CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANTIBODIES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERVUS ELAPHUS; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0037241866     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03343.x     Document Type: Article

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