The (α2→8)-linked polysialic acid capsule of group B Neisseria meningitidis modifies multiple steps during interaction with human macrophages

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3210-3217

  Read, Robert C ^a,b   Zimmerli, Stefan ^b   Courtney Broaddus, V ^b   Sanan, David A ^b   Stephens, David S ^c   Ernst, Joel D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYSIALIC ACID; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIALIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; LYSOSOME; MACROPHAGE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTIGENS, CD; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; HUMANS; LYSOSOME-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; LYSOSOMES; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOMES; SIALIC ACIDS;

EID: 0029665143     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.8.3210-3217.1996     Document Type: Article

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