A Screen of Coxiella burnetii Mutants Reveals Important Roles for Dot/Icm Effectors and Host Autophagy in Vacuole Biogenesis

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Newton, Hayley J ^a,b   Kohler, Lara J ^a   McDonough, Justin A ^a   Temoche Diaz, Morayma ^a   Crabill, Emerson ^a   Hartland, Elizabeth L ^b   Roy, Craig R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; TRANSPOSON;

AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; CELL VACUOLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHAGOSOME; Q FEVER; TRANSPOSON;

AUTOPHAGY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTATION; PHAGOSOMES; Q FEVER; VACUOLES;

EID: 84905395102     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004286     Document Type: Article

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