Bacterial Type IV secretion systems: Versatile virulence machines

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-257

  Voth, Daniel E ^a   Broederdorf, Laura J ^a   Graham, Joseph G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

dot Icm substrate; effector; intracellular pathogen; Type IV secretion

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BARTONELLA; BRUCELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; HOST CELL; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; UBIQUITINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84856946327     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.150     Document Type: Review

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