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SUBMITTER: Sawa T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5127104 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sawa Teiji T Hamaoka Saeko S Kinoshita Mao M Kainuma Atsushi A Naito Yoshifumi Y Akiyama Koichi K Kato Hideya H
Toxins 20161026 11
<i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> ExoU, a type III secretory toxin and major virulence factor with patatin-like phospholipase activity, is responsible for acute lung injury and sepsis in immunocompromised patients. Through use of a recently updated bacterial genome database, protein sequences predicted to be homologous to <i>Ps. aeruginosa</i> ExoU were identified in 17 other <i>Pseudomonas</i> species (<i>Ps. fluorescens</i>, <i>Ps. lundensis</i>, <i>Ps. weihenstephanensis</i>, <i>Ps. marginalis, P ...[more]