Yersinia pestis Ail: multiple roles of a single protein

AM Kolodziejek, CJ Hovde, SA Minnich - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Yersinia pestis is one of the most virulent bacteria identified. It is the causative agent of
plague—a systemic disease that has claimed millions of human lives throughout history. Y …

Eight stranded β-barrel and related outer membrane proteins: role in bacterial pathogenesis

S McClean - Protein and peptide letters, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Gram negative bacteria have evolved many mechanisms of attaching to and invading host
epithelial and immune cells. In particular, many outer membrane proteins (OMPs) are …

Ail protein binds ninth type III fibronectin repeat (9FNIII) within central 120-kDa region of fibronectin to facilitate cell binding by Yersinia pestis

TM Tsang, DS Annis, M Kronshage, JT Fenno… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
The Yersinia pestis adhesin molecule Ail interacts with the extracellular matrix protein
fibronectin (Fn) on host cells to facilitate efficient delivery of cytotoxic Yop proteins, a process …

Roles of chaperone/usher pathways of Yersinia pestis in a murine model of plague and adhesion to host cells

M Hatkoff, LM Runco, C Pujol, I Jayatilaka… - Infection and …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Yersinia pestis and many other Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria use the
chaperone/usher (CU) pathway to assemble virulence-associated surface fibers termed pili …

[PDF][PDF] Молекулярно-генетические механизмы образования и функциональная значимость липополисахарида Yersinia pestis

СВ Дентовская - 2012 - researchgate.net
5 ПЕРЕЧЕНЬ СОКРАЩЕНИЙ, УСЛОВНЫХ ОБОЗНАЧЕНИЙ, СИМВОЛОВ, ЕДИНИЦ И
ТЕРМИНОВ (согласно M. Demerec et al.[140] и R. Novik et al.[360]) 12: 0-лауроильная …

Modern advances against plague

PCF Oyston, ED Williamson - Advances in applied microbiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Plague has been a scourge of humanity, responsible for the deaths of millions. The
etiological agent, Yersinia pestis, has evolved relatively recently from an enteropathogen …

Investigating the relationship between quorum sensing, motility, and the type 3 secretion system of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

RJ Goldstone - 2012 - eprints.nottingham.ac.uk
Over the course of the last two decades, research into the role of quorum sensing (QS) in
regulating diverse bacterial behaviours has exploded, and around twelve years ago, a QS …

Role of the Yersinia protein YopK in microbe-host interactions

S Thorslund - 2012 - diva-portal.org
There are three human pathogenic species of the genus Yersiniae: Yersinia pestis, Yersinia
enterocolitica, and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. To cause disease, these strains inhibit …

Roles of the Chaperone/Usher Pathways of Yersinia pestis in Interactions with Host Cells and Virulence

MR Hatkoff - 2012 - search.proquest.com
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, encodes for a large repertoire of pili, which
are hair-like fibers that extend out from the bacterial surface. Pili formed by the …

Translocated regulators of the Yersinia type III secretion system

RS Dewoody - 2012 - search.proquest.com
Yersinia species, as well as many other Gram-negative pathogens, use a type III secretion
system (TTSS) to translocate effector proteins from the bacterial cytoplasm to the host …