Cuts Both Ways: Proteases Modulate Virulence of Enterohemorrhagic <italic toggle="yes">Escherichia coli</italic>

Cuts Both Ways: Proteases Modulate Virulence of Enterohemorrhagic <italic toggle="yes">Escherichia coli</italic>

ABSTRACT Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a major cause of foodborne gastrointestinal illness. EHEC uses a specialized type III secretion system (T3SS) to form attaching and effacing lesions in the colonic epithelium and outcompete commensal gut microbiota to cause disease. A recent repo...

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Autores principales: Lauren D. Palmer, Eric P. Skaar
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019-02-01
Colección:mBio
Materias:
EHEC
commensal
microbiota
protease
virulence
Acceso en línea:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00115-19

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