Corynebacterium diphtheriae employs specific minor pilins to target human pharyngeal epithelial cells

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-124

  Mandlik, Anjali ^a   Swierczynski, Arlene ^a   Das, Asis ^a   Ton That, Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATEX; PILIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE DELETION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LARYNX; LUNG; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PHARYNX;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIACEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE;

EID: 33947249635     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05630.x     Document Type: Article

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