Staphylococcus aureus Cap50 has UDP-ManNAc dehydrogenase activity and is essential for capsule expression

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 917-923

  Portoles M ^a   Kiser, K B ^a   Bhasin, N ^a   Chan, K H N ^a   Lee, J C ^a  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIMERASE; MANNOSAMINE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLMANNOSAMINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAP5 PROTEIN, STAPHYLOCOCCUS; UDP N ACETYLMURAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; UDP-N-ACETYLMURAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE DELETION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE DEHYDROGENASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034746424     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.2.917-923.2001     Document Type: Article

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