The amoebae plate test implicates a paralogue of lpxB in the interaction of Legionella pneumophila with Acanthamoeba castellanii

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 167-182

  Albers, Urs ^a   Reus, Katrin ^a   Shuman, Howard A ^b   Hilbi, Hubert ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DISACCHARIDE; HYDROLASE; LIPID A; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AGAR MEDIUM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL CULTURE; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DILUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; WILD TYPE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 13444256654     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27563-0     Document Type: Article

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