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Molecular Pathogenesis

• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Role of the α-Helical Linker of the C-Terminal Translocator in the Biogenesis of the Serine Protease Subfamily of Autotransporters

  Maria Kostakioti, Christos Stathopoulos
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Ligand-Signaled Upregulation of Enterococcus faecalis ace Transcription, a Mechanism for Modulating Host-E. faecalis Interaction

  Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, Barbara E. Murray
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Role of Intrachain Disulfides in the Activities of the CdtA and CdtC Subunits of the Cytolethal Distending Toxin of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

  Linsen Cao, Alla Volgina, Jonathan Korostoff, Joseph M. DiRienzo
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Bartonella quintana Variably Expressed Outer Membrane Proteins Mediate Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Secretion but Not Host Cell Adherence

  Berit Schulte, Dirk Linke, Sandra Klumpp, Martin Schaller, Tanja Riess, Ingo B. Autenrieth, Volkhard A. J. Kempf
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Biochemical Activities of Three Pairs of Ehrlichia chaffeensis Two-Component Regulatory System Proteins Involved in Inhibition of Lysosomal Fusion

  Yumi Kumagai, Zhihui Cheng, Mingqun Lin, Yasuko Rikihisa
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Yersinia pestis YopJ Suppresses Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Induction and Contributes to Apoptosis of Immune Cells in the Lymph Node but Is Not Required for Virulence in a Rat Model of Bubonic Plague

  Nadine Lemaître, Florent Sebbane, Daniel Long, B. Joseph Hinnebusch
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Differential Regulation of Iron- and Manganese-Specific MtsABC and Heme-Specific HtsABC Transporters by the Metalloregulator MtsR of Group A Streptococcus

  Tracey S. Hanks, Mengyao Liu, Michael J. McClure, Maki Fukumura, Angela Duffy, Benfang Lei
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Thioredoxin 1 Promotes Intracellular Replication and Virulence of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

  Eva Bjur, Sofia Eriksson-Ygberg, Fredrik Åslund, Mikael Rhen
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Legionella pneumophila Mip, a Surface-Exposed Peptidylproline cis-trans-Isomerase, Promotes the Presence of Phospholipase C-Like Activity in Culture Supernatants

  Sruti DebRoy, Virginia Aragon, Sherry Kurtz, Nicholas P. Cianciotto
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Identification of In Vivo-Induced Bacterial Protein Antigens during Human Infection with Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi

  Jason B. Harris, Andrea Baresch-Bernal, Sean M. Rollins, Ashfaqul Alam, Regina C. LaRocque, Margaret Bikowski, Amanda F. Peppercorn, Martin Handfield, Jeffery D. Hillman, Firdausi Qadri, Stephen B. Calderwood, Elizabeth Hohmann, Robert F. Breiman, W. Abdullah Brooks, Edward T. Ryan
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Construction of a Mutant and Characterization of the Role of the Vaccine Antigen P6 in Outer Membrane Integrity of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

  Timothy F. Murphy, Charmaine Kirkham, Alan J. Lesse
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Constitutive Expression of Outer Surface Protein C Diminishes the Ability of Borrelia burgdorferi To Evade Specific Humoral Immunity

  Qilong Xu, Sunita V. Seemanapalli, Kristy McShan, Fang Ting Liang
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Roles of Cellular Activation and Sulfated Glycans in Haemophilus somnus Adherence to Bovine Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells

  E. Behling-Kelly, H. Vonderheid, Kwang Sik Kim, L. B. Corbeil, C. J. Czuprynski
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  The Contribution of PspC to Pneumococcal Virulence Varies between Strains and Is Accomplished by Both Complement Evasion and Complement-Independent Mechanisms

  Alison R. Kerr, Gavin K. Paterson, Jackie McCluskey, Francesco Iannelli, Marco R. Oggioni, Gianni Pozzi, Tim J. Mitchell
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Expression and Function of a Family of Transmembrane Kinases from the Protozoan Parasite Entamoeba histolytica

  Alka Mehra, Jesse Fredrick, William A. Petri, Sudha Bhattacharya, Alok Bhattacharya
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  Mechanisms of Resistance of Porphyromonas gingivalis to Killing by Serum Complement

  Jennifer M. Slaney, Alexandra Gallagher, Joseph Aduse-Opoku, Keith Pell, Michael A. Curtis
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  The Bacteroides fragilis Toxin Binds to a Specific Intestinal Epithelial Cell Receptor

  Shaoguang Wu, Jai Shin, Guangming Zhang, Mitchell Cohen, Augusto Franco, Cynthia L. Sears
• Molecular Pathogenesis

  The Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Type IVB Self-Association Pili Are Detached from the Bacterial Cell by the PilV Minor Pilus Proteins

  Connie K. P. Tam, Christina Morris, Jim Hackett