PicU, a second serine protease autotransporter of uropathogenic Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-83

  Parham, Nick J ^a   Srinivasan, Usha ^b   Desvaux, Mickaël ^a   Foxman, Betsy ^b   Marrs, Carl F ^b   Henderson, Ian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autotransporter; Type V secretion; Uropathogenic

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0346492803     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00862-0     Document Type: Article

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