Type III secretion translocon assemblies that attenuate Yersinia virulence

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1088-1110

  Costa, Tiago R D ^a   Amer, Ayad A A ^a   Farag, Salah I ^a   Wolf Watz, Hans ^a   Fällman, Maria ^a   Fahlgren, Anna ^a   Edgren, Tomas ^a   Francis, Matthew S ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIGITONIN; PROTEINASE; TRANSLOCON;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL KILLING; CELL STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELA CELL; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA INFECTIONS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EUKARYOTA; YERSINIA;

EID: 84879204564     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12100     Document Type: Article

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