Intracellular Rickettsiales: Insights into manipulators of eukaryotic cells

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 573-583

  Renvoisé, Aurélie ^a   Merhej, Vicky ^a   Georgiades, Kalliopi ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2-3 COMPLEX; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYSIN A; HEMOLYSIN C; MAJOR SURFACE PROTEIN 2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN B; PATATIN LIKE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; PROTEIN P28; PROTEIN P44; PROTEIN RICKA; RECO PROTEIN; RT0522 PROTEIN; SCA2 PROTEIN; SCA4 PROTEIN; SPOT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WSPA PROTEIN; WSPB PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL MOTILITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXCHANGE; GENE GAIN; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME SIZE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE EVASION; INDEL MUTATION; LIFE CYCLE; METABOLIC REGULATION; MOSAICISM; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; NEORICKETTSIA SENNETSU; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PHAGOSOME; PSEUDOGENE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIALES; RNA SPLICING; STOP CODON; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR STRUCTURES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIACEAE; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 80053565488     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: 1471499X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2011.05.009     Document Type: Review

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