Lipopolysaccharide O antigen status of Yersinia enterocolitica O:8 is essential for virulence and absence of O antigen affects the expression of other Yersinia virulence factors

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 451-469

  Bengoechea, José Antonio ^a,b   Najdenski, Hristo ^c   Skurnik, Mikael ^b,d  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; LIVER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PEYER PATCH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RANDOMIZATION; SEROTYPE; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS; PEYER'S PATCHES; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; REGULON; SPLEEN; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 1942468847     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.03987.x     Document Type: Article

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