Listeriolysin O: A key protein of Listeria monocytogenes with multiple functions

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 514-529

  Kayal, Samer ^a   Charbit, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Cytolysin; Intracellular parasitism; Listeria monocytogenes; Listeriolysin O; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHELATING AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS TOXIN; CYTOLYSIN; EGTAZIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LISTERIOLYSIN O; PHOSPHOLIPASE; POLYPEPTIDE; THAPSIGARGIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING KINETICS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL INTERACTION; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHANNEL GATING; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; HEMOLYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTERNALIZATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOSOME; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICE; NF-KAPPA B; PHAGOSOMES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA IVANOVII; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33744948764     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2006.00021.x     Document Type: Review

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