A SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM VIRULENCE PROTEIN IS SIMILAR TO A YERSINIA-ENTEROCOLITICA INVASION PROTEIN AND A BACTERIOPHAGE-LAMBDA OUTER-MEMBRANE PROTEIN

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作者
PULKKINEN, WS [1 ]
MILLER, SI [1 ]
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[1] HARVARD UNIV,MASSACHUSETTS GEN HOSP,SCH MED,INFECT DIS UNIT,BOSTON,MA 02114
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10.1128/jb.173.1.86-93.1991
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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The PhoP-PhoQ-regulated pagC locus is essential for full virulence and survival within macrophages of Salmonella typhimurium. The protein product, DNA sequence, and transcript of pagC were determined. The pagC locus encodes a single 188-amino-acid membrane protein that is similar to the ail-encoded eucaryotic cell invasion protein of Yersinia enterocolitica and the lom-encoded protein of bacteriophage lambda. The similarity of PagC and Ail to Lom leads us to hypothesize that Lom is a virulence protein and that bacteriophage gene transfer and lysogeny could have led to the development of proteins essential to survival within macrophages and eucaryotic cell invasion.
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