Identification of A Novel Citrobacter rodentium Type III Secreted Protein, EspI, and Roles of This and Other Secreted Proteins in Infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2288-2302

  Mundy, Rosanna ^a   Petrovska, Liljana ^a   Smollett, Katherine ^a   Simpson, Nandi ^a   Wilson, Rebecca K ^a   Yu, Jun ^a   Tu, Xuanlin ^b   Rosenshine, Ilan ^b   Clare, Simon ^a   Dougan, Gordon ^a   Frankel, Gad ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESPF; PROTEIN ESPG; PROTEIN ESPH; PROTEIN ESPI; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOST CELL; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; COLON; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 12144287210     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.2288-2302.2004     Document Type: Article

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