Ail proteins of Yersinia pestis and Y. pseudotuberculosis have different cell binding and invasion activities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Tsang, Tiffany M ^a,d   Wiese, Jeffrey S ^b   Felek, Suleyman ^c   Kronshage, Malte ^c   Krukonis, Eric S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84893608355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083621     Document Type: Article

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