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SepL, a protein required for enteropathogenic Escherichia coli type III translocation, interacts with secretion component SepD.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jun 2004
O'Connell Colin B, Creasey Elizabeth A, Knutton Stuart, Elliott Simon, Crowther Lynette J, Luo Wensheng, Albert M John, Kaper James B, Frankel Gad, Donnenberg Michael S
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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), an important cause of infantile diarrhoea in the developing world, disrupts host cell microvilli, causes actin rearrangements and attaches intimately to the host cell surface. This characteristic phenotype, referred to as the attaching and effacing (A/E) effect, is encoded on a 36 kb pathogenicity island called the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE). The LEE includes...
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