Killing me softly: chlamydial use of proteolysis for evading host defenses

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 467-474

  Zhong, Guangming ^a  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL VACUOLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIPID TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEINS;

CHLAMYDIAE;

EID: 70349335639     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.07.007     Document Type: Review

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