Article
Cytotoxicity of the effector protein BteA was attenuated in Bordetella pertussis by insertion of an alanine residue
2020-04-03
Abstract excerpt
Bordetella bronchiseptica and Bordetella pertussis are closely related respiratory pathogens that evolved from a common bacterial ancestor. While B. bronchiseptica has an environmental reservoir and mostly establishes chronic infections in a broad range of mammals, B. pertussis is a human-specific pathogen causing acute pulmonary pertussis in infants and whooping cough illness in older humans. Both species empl...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 449f1448-d217-5fed-b3d5-e2c6f545d2b5
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.04.03.023549
