Expression during host infection and localization of Yersinia pestis autotransporter proteins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 5936-5949

  Lenz, Jonathan D ^a,b,c   Lawrenz, Matthew B ^a,c,d   Cotter, David G ^c   Lane, M Chelsea ^a   Gonzalez, Rodrigo J ^a   Palacios, Michelle ^a   Miller, Virginia L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; OMPTIN; PROTEIN CAF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN C; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN E; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN F; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN G; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN H; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN J; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN K; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN L; YERSINIA AUTOTRANSPORTER PROTEIN M;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPERNATANT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLAGUE; RODENT DISEASES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 80055041521     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05877-11     Document Type: Article

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