Glycolipids are involved in biofilm accumulation and prolonged bacteraemia in Enterococcus faecalis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1055-1069

  Theilacker, Christian ^a   Sanchez Carballo, Patricia ^b   Toma, Ioana ^a   Fabretti, Francesca ^c   Sava, Irina ^a   Kropec, Andrea ^a   Holst, Otto ^b   Huebner, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Research Center Borstel   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOFILM ASSOCIATED GLYCOLIPID SYNTHESIS A PROTEIN; DIACYLGLYCEROL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOLIPID; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOFILM; BLOOD FLOW; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CELL WALL; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BIOFILMS; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL WALL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLIPIDS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; TEICHOIC ACIDS; VIRULENCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 60349126579     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06587.x     Document Type: Article

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