Deletion of Braun lipoprotein gene (lpp) and curing of plasmid pPCP1 dramatically alter the virulence of Yersinia pestis CO92 in a mouse model of pneumonic plague

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3247-3259

  Agar, Stacy L ^a   Sha, Jian ^a   Baze, Wallace B ^b   Erova, Tatiana E ^a   Foltz, Sheri M ^a   Suarez, Giovanni ^a   Wang, Shaofei ^a   Chopra, Ashok K ^a,c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATING PROTEASE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; IN VITRO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PLASMID; PNEUMONIC PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; TISSUE INJURY; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIPOPROTEINS; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; PLAGUE; PLASMIDS; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; MUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 71049153268     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.029124-0     Document Type: Article

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