Chlamydia cell biology and pathogenesis

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 385-400

  Elwell, Cherilyn ^a   Mirrashidi, Kathleen ^a   Engel, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEOME; RAB PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSLOCATED ACTIN RECRUITING PHOSPHOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TYPE V SECRETION SYSTEM;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DEATH; CELL FUSION; CELL INCLUSION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CHLAMYDIA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; GOLGI COMPLEX; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE EVASION; INTERNALIZATION; M PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TYPE V SECRETION SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CYTOPLASM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PROTEOMICS; TYPE V SECRETION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84964240913     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.30     Document Type: Review

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