Phenotypic characterization of a virulence-associated protein, VagH, of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis reveals a tight link between VagH and the type III secretion system

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1464-1473

  Garbom, Sara ^a   Olofsson, Martina ^a,d   Björnfot, Ann Catrin ^a   Srivastava, Kumar ^b,e   Robinson, Victoria L ^c   Oyston, Petra C F ^c   Titball, Richard W ^c   Wolf Watz, Hans ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Umea Plant Science Center   (Sweden)

^c Department of Biomedical Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e BUNDELKHAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN VAGH; PROTEIN YOPD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MACROPHAGES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEOME; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34249104339     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/000323-0     Document Type: Article

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