The Ser/Thr kinase activity of the Yersinia protein kinase A (YpkA) is necessary for full virulence in the mouse, mollifying phagocytes, and disrupting the eukaryotic cytoskeleton

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 234-243

  Wiley, David J ^a   Nordfeldth, Roland ^b   Rosenzweig, Jason ^a   DaFonseca, Christopher J ^a   Gustin, Richard ^a   Wolf Watz, Hans ^b   Schesser, Kurt ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fission yeast; Kinase; Pathogenesis; Yersinia; YpkA

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; WILD TYPE; YEAST; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHAGOCYTES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME FACTORS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33747780120     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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