InlB: an invasion protein of Listeria monocytogenes with a novel type of surface association.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.4621825.x

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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 motil...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Bacterial Proteins
Listeria monocytogenes
Membrane Proteins
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation

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