Forssman Synthetase Expression Results in Diminished Shiga Toxin Susceptibility: A Role for Glycolipids in Determining Host-Microbe Interactions

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6543-6552

  Elliott, Sean P ^a,c   Yu, Min ^a   Xu, Huaijin ^a   Haslam, David B ^a,b  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FORSSMAN SYNTHETASE; FORSSMANN GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOLIPID; SHIGA TOXIN; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERO CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOGS; GLOBOSIDES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; SHIGA TOXIN; TRIHEXOSYLCERAMIDES; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0242349623     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6543-6552.2003     Document Type: Article

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