Outer Membrane Protein A (OmpA): A New Player in Shigella flexneri Protrusion Formation and Inter-Cellular Spreading

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ambrosi, Cecilia ^a   Pompili, Monica ^b   Scribano, Daniela ^c   Zagaglia, Carlo ^b   Ripa, Sandro ^d   Nicoletti, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; F ACTIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; PROTEIN ICSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; CELL SPREADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTRUSION FORMATION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ACTINS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURFACE EXTENSIONS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GROUP IV PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 84869108510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049625     Document Type: Article

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