Pilus Phase Variation Switches Gonococcal Adherence to Invasion by Caveolin-1-Dependent Host Cell Signaling

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Faulstich, Michaela ^a   Böttcher, Jan Peter ^b   Meyer, Thomas F ^b   Fraunholz, Martin ^a   Rudel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 [[6 (3 METHOXYESTRA 1, 3, 5 (10) TRIEN 17BETA YL) AMINO] HEXYL] 1H PYRROLE 2, 5 DIONE; 2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; CAVEOLIN 1; GENTAMICIN; IMATINIB; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; POLYCYSTIN 1; PROTEIN P85; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERNALIZATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CAVEOLIN 1; CELL LINE; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PHOSPHOLIPASE C GAMMA; PROTEIN KINASE C; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 84878509885     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003373     Document Type: Article

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