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Infection and Immunity, January 2000, p. 403-406, Vol. 68, No. 1
School of Optometry, University of
California, Berkeley, California 94720,1 and
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical
College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 532262
Received 29 June 1999/Returned for modification 23 September
1999/Accepted 8 October 1999
The presence of invasion-inhibitory activity that is regulated by
the transcriptional activator ExsA of cytotoxic Pseudomonas aeruginosa has previously been proposed. The results of this
study show that both ExoT and ExoS, known type III secreted effector proteins of P. aeruginosa that are regulated by ExsA,
possess this activity. Invasion was reduced 94.4% by ExoT and 96.0%
by ExoS. Invasion-inhibitory activity is not linked to ADP-ribosylation activity, at least for ExoS, since a noncatalytic mutant also inhibits
uptake by an epithelial cell line (invasion was reduced 96.0% by ExoSE381A).
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ExoT of Cytotoxic Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Prevents Uptake by Corneal Epithelial Cells
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