The Icm/Dot type-IV secretion systems of Legionella pneumophila and Coxiella burnetii

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-81

  Segal, Gil ^a   Feldman, Michal ^a   Zusman, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coxiella; Icm Dot; Legionella; Type IV secretion systems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ICM PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; CHANNEL GATING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONJUGATION; COXIELLA BURNETII; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LYSOSOME; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SECRETION; Q FEVER; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COXIELLA BURNETII; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 11844273940     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsre.2004.07.001     Document Type: Review

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