Deletion of vapA encoding Virulence Associated Protein A attenuates the intracellular actinomycete Rhodococcus equi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-128

  Jain, Shruti ^a   Bloom, Barry R ^a   Hondalus, Mary K ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN A; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; KNOCKOUT GENE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; EQUIDAE; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0141484338     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03689.x     Document Type: Article

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