Yersinia pestis Pla has multiple virulence-associated functions

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 141-145

  Lähteenmäki, Kaarina ^a   Kukkonen, Maini ^a   Jaatinen, Silja ^a   Suomalainen, Marjo ^a   Soranummi, Hanna ^a   Virkola, Ritva ^a   Lång, Hannu ^a   Korhonen, Timo K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN OMPT; PROTEIN PGTE; PROTEIN PLA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; PORINS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0038807535     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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