Bacterial pathogens caught in the actin

Actin filaments and the growth, movement, and spread of the intracellular bacterial parasite, Listeria monocytogenes.

1989 • 1,268 citations

Identification of icsA, a plasmid locus of Shigella flexneri that governs bacterial intra- and intercellular spread through interaction with F-actin.

1989 • 724 citations

The rate of actin-based motility of intracellular Listeria monocytogenes equals the rate of actin polymerization

1992 • 533 citations

Electron microscope studies of experimental Salmonella infection. I. Penetration into the intestinal epithelium by Salmonella typhimurium.

1967 • 532 citations

Adhesion of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli to human intestinal enterocytes and cultured human intestinal mucosa

1987 • 408 citations

Cytoskeletal rearrangements accompanying Salmonella entry into epithelial cells

1991 • 349 citations

Entry of Shigella flexneri into HeLa cells: evidence for directed phagocytosis involving actin polymerization and myosin accumulation

1987 • 327 citations

Involvement of the epidermal growth factor receptor in the invasion of cultured mammalian cells by Salmonella typhimurium

1992 • 224 citations

Cytoskeletal composition of attaching and effacing lesions associated with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli adherence to HeLa cells

1992 • 215 citations

Host cell actin assembly is necessary and likely to provide the propulsive force for intracellular movement of Listeria monocytogenes

1992 • 164 citations

Novel form of growth cone motility involving site-directed actin filament assembly

1992 • 156 citations

Unipolar reorganization of F-actin layer at bacterial division and bundling of actin filaments by plastin correlate with movement of Shigella flexneri within HeLa cells

1992 • 100 citations

The nucleation-release model of actin filament dynamics in cell motility

1992 • 69 citations