Functional analysis of the Listeria monocytogenes secretion chaperone PrsA2 and its multiple contributions to bacterial virulence.

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Published in Mol Microbiol on May 05, 2011

Authors

Francis Alonzo1, Bobbi Xayarath, James C Whisstock, Nancy E Freitag

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1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

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