The Hek outer membrane protein of Escherichia coli is an auto-aggregating adhesin and invasin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 248-255

  Fagan, Robert P ^a,b   Smith, Stephen G J ^a,c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Escherichia coli; Hek; Hra1; Invasion; Meningitis

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; HEK OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; INVASIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BRAIN INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 33947408094     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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