TonB Is Required for Intracellular Growth and Virulence of Shigella dysenteriae
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TonB is required for intracellular growth and virulence of Shigella dysenteriae.
To assess the importance of TonB-dependent iron transport systems to growth of Shigella in vivo, a tonB mutant of Shigella dysenteriae was isolated and tested in cultured cells. The tonB mutant invaded epithelial cells, but did not form plaques in confluent monolayers of Henle cells, indicating an inability of this mutant to spread from cell to cell. The rate of intracellular multiplication of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.68.11.6329-6336.2000