Fibronectin: A multidomain host adhesin targeted by bacterial fibronectin-binding proteins

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 147-200

  Henderson, Brian ^a   Nair, Sean ^a   Pallas, Jaqueline ^b   Williams, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogenesis; Fibronectin; Fibronectin binding proteins

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADHESIN; ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA1 INTEGRIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CYTOKINE; FIBRIN; FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN 1; FIBRONECTIN 2; FIBRONECTIN 3; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; FIBULIN; GELATIN; GLYOXYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; HETERODIMER; INTERLEUKIN 6; ISONIAZID; LAMININ; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT KINASE 2; MALATE SYNTHASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SYNAPSIN I; TEFIBAZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITRONECTIN;

ARCANOBACTERIUM PYOGENES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLOSTRIDIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LACTOBACILLUS; LEPTOSPIRA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PASTEURELLACEAE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; YERSINIA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL ADHESION; FIBRONECTINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 78650028835     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00243.x     Document Type: Article

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