Variation in lipid A structure in the pathogenic yersiniae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1363-1373

  Rebeil, Roberto ^a   Ernst, Robert K ^b   Gowen, Brian B ^a   Miller, Samuel I ^b   Hinnebusch, B Joseph ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOCYTES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TEMPERATURE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 2942628335     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04059.x     Document Type: Article

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