GNA33 of Neisseria meningitidis Is A Lipoprotein Required for Cell Separation, Membrane Architecture, and Virulence

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1914-1919

  Adu Bobie, Jeannette ^a   Lupetti, Pietro ^b   Brunelli, Brunella ^a   Granoff, Dan ^c   Norais, Nathalie ^a   Ferrari, Germano ^a   Grandi, Guido ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Pizza, Mariagrazia ^a  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN GNA33; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BACTEREMIA; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE DELETION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP B; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 1842536399     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.1914-1919.2004     Document Type: Article

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