Molecular and cellular mechanisms of action of the vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA) and neutrophil-activating protein (HP-NAP) virulence factors of Helicobacter pylori

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 715-721

  Montecucco, Cesare ^a,b   De Bernard, Marina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Veneto di Medicina Molecolare   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell vacuolation; Epithelia; Helicobacter; Inflammation; Neutrophils

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BASE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOTOXIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; IRON; NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; UREASE; VACUOLATING TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; IRON TRANSPORT; LYSOSOME; MACROPHAGE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOMACH MUCUS; STOMACH WALL; SUPERNATANT; TARGET CELL; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0038240647     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(03)00124-2     Document Type: Review

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