'Small' talk: Opa proteins as mediators of Neisseria-host-cell communication

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-49

  Hauck, Christof R ^a   Meyer, Thomas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OPA PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INVASION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0037327558     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(03)00004-3     Document Type: Review

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