Cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 2 produced by virulent Escherichia coli modifies the small GTP-binding proteins Rho involved in assembly of actin stress fibers.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on April 26, 1994

Authors

E Oswald1, M Sugai, A Labigne, H C Wu, C Fiorentini, P Boquet, A D O'Brien

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1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799.

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