Characterization of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli mutants that fail to disrupt host cell spreading and attachment to substratum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 839-849

  Nadler, Chen ^a   Shifrin, Yulia ^a   Nov, Shani ^a   Kobi, Simi ^a   Rosenshine, Ilan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL SPREADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE INSERTION; HELA CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 31844438984     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.2.839-849.2006     Document Type: Article

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