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InlB: an invasion protein of Listeria monocytogenes with a novel type of surface association.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jul 1997
Braun L, Dramsi S, Dehoux P, Bierne H, Lindahl G, Cossart P
Abstract excerpt
Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular bacterial pathogen that expresses several surface proteins critical for the infectious process. Such proteins include InlA (internalin) and InlB, involved in bacterial entry into the host cell, and ActA, required for bacterially induced actin-based motility. Although the molecular mechanisms of attachment of InlA and ActA have been characterized, essentially nothing is...
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