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Cholera toxin and extracellular Ca2+ induce adherence of non-piliated Neisseria: evidence for an important role of G-proteins and Rho in the bacteria-cell interaction.
Cellular microbiology - 1 Aug 2000
Källström H, Hansson-Palo P, Jonsson A B
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we characterize the interaction between non-piliated (P-) Neisseria gonorrhoeae and human epithelial cells. P- mutants lacking the pilus subunit protein PilE attach at low levels to cells. Although the binding may not lead to heavy inflammatory responses, the interaction between P- Neisseria and host cells most probably play a role in colonization and asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen. Here we...
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