Helicobacter pylori outer membrane protein HopQ identified as a novel T4SS-associated virulence factors

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1896-1912

  Belogolova, Elena ^a   Bauer, Bianca ^a   Pompaiah, Malvika ^a   Asakura, Hiroshi ^a,g   Brinkman, Volker ^a   Ertl, Claudia ^b   Bartfeld, Sina ^a,f   Nechitaylo, Taras Y ^c   Haas, Rainer ^b   Machuy, Nikolaus ^a   Salama, Nina ^d   Churin, Yuri ^a,e   Meyer, Thomas F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAGA PROTEIN; I KAPPA B; INTERLEUKIN 8; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN HOPQ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CELL LINE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE DELETION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-8; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NF-KAPPA B; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84885425766     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12158     Document Type: Article

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