Listeria monocytogenes ActA: A new function for a 'classic' virulence factor

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 53-60

  Travier, Laetitia ^a,b   Lecuit, Marc ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SURFACE PROTEIN ACTA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BIOFILM; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTILITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84890809225     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2013.11.007     Document Type: Review

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