The blueprint of the type-3 injectisome

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1592, 2012, Pages 1140-1154

  Kosarewicz, Agata ^a,b   Königsmaier, Lisa ^a,b   Marlovits, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dissection; Function; Microbial pathogenesis; Salmonella; Structure; Type 3 secretion

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; SECRETION; TOXIN; TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 84858221015     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0205     Document Type: Review

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