Article
Multiple ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolases facilitate intracellular replication of Legionella pneumophila.
The Biochemical journal - 1 Sept 2014
Riedmaier Patrice, Sansom Fiona M, Sofian Trifina, Beddoe Travis, Schuelein Ralf, Newton Hayley J, Hartland Elizabeth L
Abstract excerpt
Legionella pneumophila is an opportunistic pathogen that replicates within alveolar macrophages resulting in the onset of severe atypical pneumonia. Previously we have identified Lpg1905, a eukaryotic-type ecto-NTPDase (nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase) from L. pneumophila that was required for optimal intracellular replication and virulence in a mouse lung infection model. In the present study, we...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Adenosine Triphosphate
- Animals
- Antigens, CD
- Apyrase
- Bacterial Proteins
- Calcium
- Cations, Divalent
- Cell Line
- Female
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
