Phospholipase B activity enhances adhesion of Cryptococcus neoformans to a human lung epithelial cell line

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1006-1015

  Ganendren, Ranjini ^a   Carter, Elizabeth ^b   Sorrell, Tania ^a   Widmer, Fred ^a   Wright, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Cryptococcus; Epithelium; Infrared; Lung; Phospholipase; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALEXIDINE; CHEMICAL AGENT; DIMETHYLDIOCTADECYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; ENZYME ANTIBODY; GLUCOSE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE TRANSACYLASE; MILTEFOSINE; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITOYLCARNITINE; PHOSPHOLIPASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MICROBIAL ADHESION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUNG; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 33646148472     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.10.018     Document Type: Article

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