Role for the Ankyrin eukaryotic-like genes of Legionella pneumophila in parasitism of protozoan hosts and human macrophages

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1460-1474

  Habyarimana, Fabien ^a   Al Khodor, Souhaila ^a   Kalia, Awdhesh ^a,b   Graham, James E ^a   Price, Christopher T ^a   Garcia, Maria Teresa ^a   Kwaik, Yousef Abu ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTOZOON; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANKYRINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGES; PROTOZOA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; AMOEBA (GENUS); EUKARYOTA; HARTMANNELLA VERMIFORMIS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; SARCODINA; TETRAHYMENA PYRIFORMIS;

EID: 43449096622     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01560.x     Document Type: Article

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