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SUBMITTER: Zhang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8427694 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Yong Y Liu Yan Y Luo Jingjing J Jie Jing J Deng Xuming X Song Lei L
Frontiers in pharmacology 20210826
Many important bacterial pathogens are using the type III secretion system to deliver effectors into host cells. <i>Salmonella</i> Typhimurium (<i>S</i>. Typhimurium) is a pathogenic Gram-negative bacterium with the type III secretion system as its major virulence factor. Our previous studies demonstrated that thymol, a monoterpene phenol derivative of cymene, inhibited <i>S</i>. Typhimurium invasion into mammalian cells and protected mice from infection. However, the antibacterial mechanism of ...[more]