Breaking in and grabbing a meal: Anaplasma phagocytophilum cellular invasion, nutrient acquisition, and promising tools for their study

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue 14-15, 2013, Pages 1017-1025

  Truchan, Hilary K ^a   Seidman, David ^a   Carlyon, Jason A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial invasion; Ehrlichia; Nutritional virulence; Obligate intracellular; Rab GTPase; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RAB PROTEIN;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; GENE FUNCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA; RICKETTSIA;

BACTERIAL INVASION; EHRLICHIA; NUTRITIONAL VIRULENCE; OBLIGATE INTRACELLULAR; RAB GTPASE; RICKETTSIA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EHRLICHIOSIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84889089641     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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