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Crystal structure of EHEC intimin: insights into the complementarity between EPEC and EHEC.
PloS one - 16 Dec 2010
Yi Yong, Ma Ying, Gao Feng, Mao Xuhu, Peng Hao, Feng Youjun, Fan Zheng, Wang Guihua, Guo Gang, Yan Jinghua, Zeng Hao, Zou Quanming, Gao George F
Abstract excerpt
Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is a primary food-borne bacterial pathogen capable of causing life-threatening human infections which poses a serious challenge to public health worldwide. Intimin, the bacterial outer-membrane protein, plays a key role in the initiating process of EHEC infection. This activity is dependent upon translocation of the intimin receptor (Tir), the intimin binding partner of...
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