Helicobacter pylori toxin VacA is transferred to host cells via a novel contact-dependent mechanism

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-174

  Ilver, Dag ^a,c   Barone, Silvia ^a   Mercati, David ^b   Lupetti, Pietro ^b   Telford, John L ^a  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACUOLATING TOXIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CELL CONTACT; CELL LINE; CELL SURFACE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; TARGET CELL;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE DELETION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; VACUOLES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 1642431973     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2003.00349.x     Document Type: Article

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