Sialic acid mediated transcriptional modulation of a highly conserved sialometabolism gene cluster in Haemophilus influenzae and its effect on virulence

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jenkins, Gaynor A ^a   Figueira, Marisol ^b   Kumar, Gaurav A ^a   Sweetman, Wendy A ^a   Makepeace, Katherine ^a   Pelton, Stephen I ^b   Moxon, Richard ^a   Hood, Derek W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NEURAMINIC ACID; SIALIC ACID; SUGAR; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CATABOLISM; CHINCHILLA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; SIALYLATION; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHINCHILLA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; OTITIS MEDIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77949466273     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-10-48     Document Type: Article

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