Lesson from an LPS-deficient Neisseria meningitidis mutant

Journal of Endotoxin Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 124-128

  van der Ley, Peter ^a   Steeghs, Liana ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CYTOKINE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; LIPID A; LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOLIPID; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEMBRANE LIPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL SURFACE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOGENICITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VACCINATION;

EID: 0038288987     PISSN: 09680519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/096805103125001522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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