Flaa proteins in Leptospira interrogans are essential for motility and virulence but are not required for formation of the flagellum sheath

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2019-2025

  Lambert, Ambroise ^a,b   Picardeau, Mathieu ^a   Haake, David A ^c,d   Sermswan, Rasana W ^e   Srikram, Amporn ^e,g   Adler, Ben ^f   Murray, Gerald A ^f  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAA PROTEIN; FLAA1 PROTEIN; FLAA2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLAA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; FLAGELLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HAMSTER; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS INFECTION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 85047688053     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00131-12     Document Type: Article

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