Extracellular superoxide production by Enterococcus faecalis requires demethylmenaquinone and is attenuated by functional terminal quinol oxidases

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 729-740

  Huycke, Mark M ^a,b,d   Moore, Danny ^b   Joyce, Wendy ^a   Wise, Phillip ^a   Shepard, Laura ^a   Kotake, Yashige ^c   Gilmore, Michael S ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; FREE RADICAL; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; FUMARIC ACID; HEMATIN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NORMENAQUINONE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGEN; QUINOL OXIDASE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CELL RESPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; INTESTINE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REDUCTION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; INTESTINES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPEROXIDES; VITAMIN K 2;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; MAMMALIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0035159222     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02638.x     Document Type: Article

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