Genetic and functional analysis of the phosphorylcholine moiety of commensal Neisseria lipopolysaccharide

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 437-448

  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; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; CHOLINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036170629     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02755.x     Document Type: Article

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