Three Yersinia pestis adhesins facilitate Yop delivery to eukaryotic cells and contribute to plague virulence

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4134-4150

  Felek, Suleyman ^a   Tsang, Tiffany M ^b   Krukonis, Eric S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; PH SIX ANTIGEN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; PROTEIN AIL; PROTEIN YOP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIL GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETHAL DOSE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLAGUE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; PLAGUE; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 77957726687     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00167-10     Document Type: Article

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