Identification and characterization of a glycosyltransferase involved in acinetobacter baumannii lipopolysaccharide core biosynthesis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2017-2023

  Luke, Nicole R ^a,b   Sauberan, Shauna L ^a,b   Russo, Thomas A ^a,b   Beanan, Janet M ^a,b   Olson, Ruth ^a,b   Loehfelm, Thomas W ^a   Cox, Andrew D ^c   St Michael, Frank ^c   Vinogradov, Evgeny V ^c   Campagnari, Anthony A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DEOXY MANNO OCTULOSONIC ACID; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 13 C 11; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 77951211150     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00016-10     Document Type: Article

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