CPS1, a homolog of the Streptococcus pneumoniae type 3 polysaccharide synthase gene, is important for the pathobiology of Cryptococcus neoformans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 3930-3938

  Chang, Y C ^a   Jong, A ^b   Huang, S ^b   Zerfas, P ^c   Kwon Chung, K J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYALURONAN SYNTHASE; HYALURONIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPS1 GENE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROCIRCULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33745625672     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00089-06     Document Type: Article

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