Role of glycan synthesis in colonization of the mammalian gut by the bacterial symbiont Bacteroides fragilis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 13099-13104

  Coyne, Michael J ^a   Chatzidaki Livanis, Maria ^a   Paoletti, Lawrence C ^a   Comstock, Laurie E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acapsular; Glycoprotein; Microbiota; Phase variation; Polysaccharide

Indexed keywords

GLYCAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; INTESTINE; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GLYCOPROTEINS; MAMMALS; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION; POLYSACCHARIDES; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 51349110626     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804220105     Document Type: Article

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