A K+ Uptake Protein, TrkA, is Required for Serum, Protamine, and Polymyxin B Resistance in Vibrio vulnificus

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 629-636

  Chen, Yu Chung ^a   Chuang, Yin Ching ^b   Chang, Chun Chin ^c   Jeang, Chii Ling ^a   Chang, Ming Chung ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMYXIN B; PROTAMINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEPTICEMIA; TRANSPOSON; TRKA GENE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WOUND INFECTION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMYXIN B; POTASSIUM; PROTAMINES; RABBITS; RECEPTOR, TRKA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0842327160     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.2.629-636.2004     Document Type: Article

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