Analysis of the function of enteropathogenic escherichia coli EspB by random mutagenesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 810-820

  Luo, Wensheng ^a   Donnenberg, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN B; INTIMIN; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; HELA CELL; HEMOLYSIS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANTILE DIARRHEA; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HELA CELLS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 31844450592     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.2.810-820.2006     Document Type: Article

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