From the inside out - Processing of the Chlamydial autotransporter PmpD and its role in bacterial adhesion and activation of human host cells

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 319-334

  Wehrl, Wolfgang ^a   Brinkmann, Volker ^a   Jungblut, Peter R ^a   Meyer, Thomas F ^a   Szczepek, Agnes J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYMORPHIC MEMBRANE PROTEIN 21; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INVASION; CELL METABOLISM; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLAMYDIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; TRYPSIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOPHILA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0942301210     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03838.x     Document Type: Article

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