EspB Publications

Taylor KA, O'Connell CB, Luther PW, Donnenberg MS. The EspB protein of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli is targeted to the cytoplasm of infected HeLa cells. Infect Immun. 1998 Nov;66(11):5501-7.

Taylor KA, Luther PW, Donnenberg MS. Expression of the EspB protein of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli within HeLa cells affects stress fibers and cellular morphology. Infect Immun. 1999 Jan;67(1):120-5.

Tacket CO, Sztein MB, Losonsky G, Abe A, Finlay BB, McNamara BP, Fantry GT, James SP, Nataro JP, Levine MM, Donnenberg MS. Role of EspB in experimental human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection. Infect Immun. 2000 Jun;68(6):3689-95.

Kodama T, Akeda Y, Kono G, Takahashi A, Imura K, Iida T, Honda T. The EspB protein of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli interacts directly with alpha-catenin. Cell Microbiol. 2002 Apr;4(4):213-22.

Knappstein S, Ide T, Schmidt MA, Heusipp G. Alpha 1-antitrypsin binds to and interferes with functionality of EspB from atypical and typical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains. Infect Immun. 2004 Aug;72(8):4344-50.

Chiu HJ, Syu WJ. Functional analysis of EspB from enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Microbiology. 2005 Oct;151(Pt 10):3277-86.

Luo W, Donnenberg MS. Analysis of the function of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli EspB by random mutagenesis. Infect Immun. 2006 Feb;74(2):810-20.

Iizumi Y, Sagara H, Kabe Y, Azuma M, Kume K, Ogawa M, Nagai T, Gillespie PG, Sasakawa C, Handa H. The enteropathogenic E. coli effector EspB facilitates microvillus effacing and antiphagocytosis by inhibiting myosin function. Cell Host Microbe. 2007 Dec 13;2(6):383-92.

Hamaguchi M, Hamada D, Suzuki KN, Sakata I, Yanagihara I. Molecular basis of actin reorganization promoted by binding of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli EspB to alpha-catenin. FEBS J. 2008 Dec;275(24):6260-7.