The RickA protein of Rickettsia conorii activates the Arp2/3 complex

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6973, 2004, Pages 457-461

  Gouin, Edith ^a   Egile, Coumaran ^b   Dehoux, Pierre ^a   Villiers, Veronique ^a   Adams, Josephine ^c   Gertler, Frank ^d   Li, Rong ^b   Cossart, Pascale ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; POLYMERIZATION;

CELL LOCOMOTION;

PROTEINS;

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN RICKA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; FILOPODIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RICKETTSIA CONORII;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; TRANSFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; MAMMALIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIALES; SHIGELLA; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 0842263990     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02318     Document Type: Article

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