Identification of a family of effectors secreted by the type III secretion system that are conserved in pathogenic chlamydiae

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 571-580

  Muschiol, Sandra ^a,b,c,d   Boncompain, Gaelle ^a,b   Vromman, François ^a,b   Dehoux, Pierre ^a   Normark, Staffan ^d   Henriques Normark, Birgitta ^c,d   Subtil, Agathe ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DUF582 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIOLYSIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA ABORTUS; CHLAMYDIA CAVIAE; CHLAMYDIA FELIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 79251502320     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00825-10     Document Type: Article

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