Citrobacter rodentium translocated intimin receptor (Tir) is an essential virulence factor needed for actin condensation, intestinal colonization and colonic hyperplasia in mice

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-115

  Deng, Wanyin ^a   Vallance, Bruce A ^a   Li, Yuling ^a   Puente, Jose L ^b   Finlay, B Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTIMIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERPLASIA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE INFECTION; LARGE INTESTINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITROBACTER; COLON; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TYROSINE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037386567     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03429.x     Document Type: Article

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