Mesophilic Aeromonas UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (GalU) mutants show two types of lipopolysaccharide structures and reduced virulence

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2393-2404

  Vilches, Silvia ^a   Canals, Rocío ^a   Wilhelms, Markus ^a   Saló, Maria Teresa ^a   Knirel, Yuriy A ^b   Vinogradog, Evgeny ^b,c   Merino, Susana ^a   Tomás, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DEOXY MANNO OCTULOSONIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; FISH; GENE MUTATION; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEPTICEMIA; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMALS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; VIRULENCE;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; MUS;

EID: 34547858216     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/006437-0     Document Type: Article

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