Legionella pneumophila Mip, a surface-exposed peptidylproline cis-trans-isomerase, promotes the presence of phospholipase C-like activity in culture supernatants

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 5152-5160

  DebRoy, Sruti ^a   Aragon, Virginia ^a   Kurtz, Sherry ^a   Cianciotto, Nicholas P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENOL; 4 NITROPHENOL PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE HYDROLASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLOPHILIN; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; HYDROLASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PROTEIN MIP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SCREENING; SUPERNATANT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; IMMUNOPHILINS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 33748041655     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00484-06     Document Type: Article

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