How Listeria monocytogenes organizes its surface for virulence

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Carvalho, Filipe ^a   Sousa, Sandra ^a   Cabanes, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cell envelope; Listeria; Protein anchoring domains; Regulation; Secretion; Surface proteins; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; SORTASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FOOD POISONING; GENE SEQUENCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHAGOCYTE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84924841119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00048     Document Type: Review

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