Anaplasma phagocytophilum Ats-1 Is imported into host cell mitochondria and interferes with apoptosis induction

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Niu, Hua ^a   Kozjak Pavlovic, Vera ^b   Rudel, Thomas ^b   Rikihisa, Yasuko ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA TRANSLOCATED SUBSTRATE 1; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C; ETOPOSIDE; GENOMIC DNA; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN BAX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; HELA CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAMMAL CELL; MITOCHONDRION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING; YEAST CELL; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL LINE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; EHRLICHIOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MITOCHONDRIA; NEUTROPHILS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77649251212     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000774     Document Type: Article

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