Contribution of the Ler- and H-NS-regulated long polar fimbriae of Escherichia coli O157:H7 during binding to tissue-cultured cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5062-5071

  Torres, Alfredo G ^a   Slater, Terry M ^a   Patel, Shilpa D ^a   Popov, Vsevolod L ^a   Arenas Hernández, Margarita M P ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; PROTEIN LER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; LPF1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 55849106607     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00654-08     Document Type: Article

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