Identification of a serine protease inhibitor which causes inclusion vacuole reduction and is lethal to Chlamydia trachomatis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 676-689

  Gloeckl, Sarina ^a   Ong, Vanissa A ^a   Patel, Pooja ^a   Tyndall, Joel D A ^b   Timms, Peter ^a   Beagley, Kenneth W ^a   Allan, John A ^c   Armitage, Charles W ^a   Turnbull, Lynne ^d   Whitchurch, Cynthia B ^d   Merdanovic, Melisa ^e   Ehrmann, Michael ^e   Powers, James C ^f   Oleksyszyn, Jozef ^g   Verdoes, Martijn ^h   Bogyo, Matthew ^h   Huston, Wilhelmina M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Wesley Research Institute   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CTHTRA PROTEIN; JCP 83; JO 146; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; ELEMENTARY BODY; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCLUSION VACUOLE; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY; SERINE PROTEASES; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84881552235     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12306     Document Type: Article

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