Adhesive organelles of Gram-negative pathogens assembled with the classical chaperone/usher machinery: Structure and function from a clinical standpoint

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 317-378

  Zavyalov, Vladimir ^a   Zavialov, Anton ^b   Zav'Yalova, Galina ^a   Korpela, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chaperone usher machinery; Fimbrial adhesions; Gram negative pathogens; Immunomodulatory activity; Mono and polyadhesive binding; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL RECEPTOR; CHAPERONE; ESCHERICHIA COLI VACCINE; PLAGUE VACCINE; SALMONELLOSIS VACCINE; TYPHOID VACCINE;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOMEDICINE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ORGANELLE; CHANNEL GATING; CLADISTICS; DIARRHEA; DRUG DESIGN; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST CELL; INFECTION RESISTANCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS; PLAGUE; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA CHOLERAESUIS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 77950384104     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00201.x     Document Type: Review

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