Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli haemolysin is cleaved and inactivated by serine protease EspPα

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1327-1341

  Brockmeyer, Jens ^a,c   Aldick, Thomas ^a,c   Soltwisch, Jens ^a   Zhang, Wenlan ^a   Tarr, Philip I ^b   Weiss, André ^a   Dreisewerd, Klaus ^a   Müthing, Johannes ^a   Bielaszewska, Martina ^a   Karch, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; ESPP PROTEIN, E COLI; HEMOLYSIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

CELLS, CULTURED; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79955072069     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02431.x     Document Type: Article

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