Plasmid-encoded Pgp3 is a major virulence factor for Chlamydia muridarum to induce hydrosalpinx in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5327-5335

  Liu, Yuanjun ^a,b   Huang, Yumeng ^a   Yang, Zhangsheng ^a   Sun, Yina ^b   Gong, Siqi ^a   Hou, Shuping ^b   Chen, Chaoqun ^c   Li, Zhongyu ^c   Liu, Quanzhong ^b   Wu, Yimou ^c   Baseman, Joel ^a   Zhong, Guangming ^a  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PGP3 PROTEIN; PGP4 PROTEIN; PGP7 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; PGP3 PROTEIN, CHLAMYDIA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CODON; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE NUMBER; GENITAL SYSTEM; GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROSALPINX; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STOP CODON; ANIMAL; C3H MOUSE; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PLASMID; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE, INBRED C3H; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84911375480     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.02576-14     Document Type: Article

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