Roles of chaperone/usher pathways of Yersinia pestis in a murine model of plague and adhesion to host cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3490-3500

  Hatkoff, Matthew ^a   Runco, Lisa M ^b   Pujol, Celine ^a   Jayatilaka, Indralatha ^a   Furie, Martha B ^a   Bliska, James B ^a   Thanassi, David G ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USHER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ADHESION; CERVICAL EPITHELIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX EPITHELIUM; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84867584694     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00434-12     Document Type: Article

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