Pili in Gram-positive pathogens

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 509-519

  Telford, John L ^a   Barocchi, Michèle A ^a   Margarit, Immaculada ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Grandi, Guido ^a  

^a NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; PILIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SORTASE;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL SURFACE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COVALENT BOND; CROSS REACTION; DRUG EFFICACY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIMBRIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN SUBUNITS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33745223844     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1443     Document Type: Review

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