The TibA adhesin/invasin from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is self recognizing and induces bacterial aggregation and biofilm formation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1954-1963

  Sherlock, Orla ^a   Vejborg, Rebecca Munk ^a   Klemm, Per ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; INVASIN; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN TIBA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL INVASION; CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; GLYCOSYLATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BIOFILMS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLATION;

EID: 16244421351     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.4.1954-1963.2005     Document Type: Article

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