invasins

invasins
Proteins produced by bacterial cells that promote bacterial penetration into mammalian cells. The invasin produced by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis seems to bind to the fibronectin receptor S a 5- b 1 integrin) at a site close to the fibronectin binding site, though the invasin does not have an RGD sequence.

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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