Altered lipid A structures and polymyxin hypersensitivity of Rhizobium etli mutants lacking the LpxE and LpxF phosphatases

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids

Volumn 1801, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 593-604

  Ingram, Brian O ^a   Sohlenkamp, Christian ^b   Geiger, Otto ^b   Raetz, Christian R H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Gram negative bacteria; Lipid A phosphatases; Lipopolysaccharide; LpxE; LpxF; Outer membranes; Rhizobium etli

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; LIPID A 4 PHOSPHATASE; LIPID A DERIVATIVE; LIPID A1 PHOSPHATASE; POLYMYXIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIPID STORAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOASSAY; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIPID A; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHASEOLUS; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; POLYMYXINS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 77649336700     PISSN: 13881981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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