Article
Impact of either elevated or decreased levels of cytochrome bd expression on Shigella flexneri virulence.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Feb 1999
Way S S, Sallustio S, Magliozzo R S, Goldberg M B
Abstract excerpt
Shigella spp. are the major cause of bacillary dysentery worldwide. The pathogenic process involves bacterial invasion and lysis of the phagocytic vacuole, followed by replication and movement within the cell cytoplasm and, ultimately, spread directly into adjacent cells. This study demonstrates...
Topics
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
- Actins
- Animals
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cytochrome b Group
- Cytochromes
- Dysentery, Bacillary
- Electron Transport Chain Complex Proteins
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Fibroblasts
- Lung
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Oxidoreductases
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Riboflavin
- Serine Endopeptidases