Chlamydia trachomatis type III secretion: Evidence for a functional apparatus during early-cycle development

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 671-683

  Fields, K A ^a   Mead, D J ^a   Dooley, C A ^a   Hackstadt, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN INC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL VACUOLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; RICKETTSIALES; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0038011417     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03462.x     Document Type: Article

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