The transfer of choline from the host to the bacterial cell surface requires glpQ in Haemophilus influenzae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1029-1036

  Fan, Xin ^a   Goldfine, Howard ^a   Lysenko, Elena ^a   Weiser, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHOLINE; GLPQ PROTEIN; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLINE; FEMALE; GLYCERYLPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNX; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035788607     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02571.x     Document Type: Article

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