Bacterial protein toxins that modify host regulatory GTPases

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 487-498

  Aktories, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARF PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CHOLERA TOXIN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; CYTOTOXIC NECROTIZING FACTOR 1; EXOENZYME C3; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; HETEROTRIMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PERTUSSIS TOXIN; PROTEIN CDC42; RAB PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; ADENYLATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BORDETELLA; CLOSTRIDIUM; DEAMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; HOST CELL; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

ACTINS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79959213985     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2592     Document Type: Review

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