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Spa32 regulates a switch in substrate specificity of the type III secreton of Shigella flexneri from needle components to Ipa proteins.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jul 2002
Magdalena Juana, Hachani Abderrahman, Chamekh Mustapha, Jouihri Noureddine, Gounon Pierre, Blocker Ariel, Allaoui Abdelmounaaïm
Abstract excerpt
Type III secretion systems (TTSS) are essential virulence determinants of many gram-negative bacteria and serve, upon physical contact with target cells, to translocate bacterial proteins directly across eukaryotic cell membranes. The Shigella TTSS is encoded by the mxi/spa loci located on its virulence plasmid. By electron microscopy secretons are visualized as tripartite with an external needle, a transmembrane...
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