Intracellular expression of the plasmid-encoded toxin from enteroaggregative Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 5364-5370

  Sui, Bao Quan ^a   Dutta, Pinaki R ^a   Nataro, James P ^a  

^a University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOTOXIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; SERINE; SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; CELL ELONGATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXICITY TESTING;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SPECTRIN; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0042825302     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.9.5364-5370.2003     Document Type: Article

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