Phosphorylcholine decoration of lipopolysaccharide differentiates commensal Neisseriae from pathogenic strains: Identification of licA-type genes in commensal Neisseriae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1550-1559

  Serino, Laura ^a   Virji, Mumtaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLINE KINASE; EPITOPE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOME; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOTOPE LABELING; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIALYLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLINE; CULTURE MEDIA; EPITOPES; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIAE MENINGITIDIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0034065151     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01825.x     Document Type: Article

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