Article
Internalin B is essential for adhesion and mediates the invasion of Listeria monocytogenes into human endothelial cells.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Apr 1998
Parida S K, Domann E, Rohde M, Müller S, Darji A, Hain T, Wehland J, Chakraborty T
Abstract excerpt
Listeria monocytogenes causes rhombencephalitis in humans and animals and also affects the fetus in utero, causing disseminated sepsis. In both instances, the infection occurs by the crossing of endothelial cells lining a physiological barrier, the blood-brain barrier or the transplacental barrie...
Topics
- Antibodies, Bacterial
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Bacterial Proteins
- Chromosome Deletion
- Endothelium, Vascular
- Flow Cytometry
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Membrane Proteins
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
- Multigene Family
- Mutation
- Umbilical Veins