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In vivo phospholipase activity of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa cytotoxin ExoU and protection of mammalian cells with phospholipase A2 inhibitors.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 17 Oct 2003
Phillips Rebecca M, Six David A, Dennis Edward A, Ghosh Partho
Abstract excerpt
A number of clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are cytotoxic to mammalian cells due to the action of the 74-kDa protein ExoU, which is secreted into host cells by the type III secretion system and whose function is unknown. Here we report that the swift and profound cytotoxicity induced by purified ExoU or by an ExoU-expressing strain of P. aeruginosa is blocked by various inhibitors of cytosolic (cPLA2)...
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