Identification of a gene (lpt-3) required for the addition of phosphoethanolamine to the lipopolysaccharide inner core of Neisseria meningitidis and its role in mediating susceptibility to bactericidal killing and opsonophagocytosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 931-943

  Mackinnon, Fiona G ^a   Cox, Andrew D ^b   Plested, Joyce S ^a   Tang, Christoph M ^a   Makepeace, Katherine ^a   Coull, Philip A ^a   Wright, J Claire ^a   Chalmers, Ronald ^c   Hood, Derek W ^a   Richards, James C ^b   Moxon, E Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CYTIDINE DERIVATIVE; EPITOPE; GLUCOSE; HEPTOSE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY B5; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; IGTG GENE; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IPT 3 GENE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SEROTYPE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ETHANOLAMINES; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036224219     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02754.x     Document Type: Article

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