Differential expression and transcriptional analysis of the α-2,3-sialyltransferase gene in pathogenic Neisseria spp.

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2637-2650

  Packiam, Mathanraj ^a   Shell, Dawn M ^a   Liu, Shi V ^a   Liu, Yao Bin ^a   McGee, David J ^a   Srivastava, Ranjana ^a   Seal, Samar ^a   Rest, Richard F ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2,3 SIALYLTRANSFERASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENT; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIPOOLIGOSACCHARIDE; SIALYLTRANSFERASE; TRITON X 100; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST; MUTANT; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILYLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646368659     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.5.2637-2650.2006     Document Type: Article

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