The glycan-rich outer layer of the cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis acts as an antiphagocytic capsule limiting the association of the bacterium with macrophages

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5676-5686

  Stokes, Richard W ^a,b,c,e   Norris Jones, Raymond ^a   Brooks, Donald E ^a   Beveridge, Terry J ^c,d   Doxsee, Dan ^a   Thorson, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Can Bact Dis Netwk Natl Ctr E   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; GLYCAN; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; MACROPHAGE; MICROELECTROPHORESIS; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SURFACE CHARGE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CELL WALL; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LECTINS; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SONICATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYRINGES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 4644276477     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.10.5676-5686.2004     Document Type: Article

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