RickA expression is not sufficient to promote actin-based motility of Rickettsia raoultii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Balraj, Premanand ^a   El Karkouri, Khalid ^a   Vestris, Guy ^a   Espinosa, Leon ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Renesto, Patricia ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RICKA PROTEIN; RICKA PROTEIN, RICKETTSIA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRAIN L 929; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA RAOULTII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VERO CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING; CELL LINE; CELL MOTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIACEAE;

ACTINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 49749146681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002582     Document Type: Article

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