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CesAB is an enteropathogenic Escherichia coli chaperone for the type-III translocator proteins EspA and EspB.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Dec 2003
Creasey Elizabeth A, Friedberg Devorah, Shaw Robert K, Umanski Tatiana, Knutton Stuart, Rosenshine Ilan, Frankel Gad
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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are extracellular pathogens that colonize mucosal surfaces of the intestine via formation of attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions. The genes responsible for induction of the A/E lesions are located on a pathogenicity island, termed the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), which encodes the adhesin intimin and the type III secretion system needle complex, translocator and...
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