The hypervariable region of meningococcal major pilin PilE controls the host cell response via antigenic variation

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Miller, Florence ^a,b   Phan, Gilles ^a   Brissac, Terry ^a,b   Bouchiat, Coralie ^a,b,d   Lioux, Ghislaine ^a,b,e   Nassif, Xavier ^a,b,c   Coureuil, Mathieu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PILIN; PROTEIN PILE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN CELL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTANT PROTEINS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 84903370958     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01024-13     Document Type: Article

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