Outer membrane protein X (Ail) contributes to Yersinia pestis virulence in pneumonic plague and its activity is dependent on the lipopolysaccharide core length

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5233-5243

  Kolodziejek, Anna M ^a   Schnider, Darren R ^a   Rohde, Harold N ^a   Wojtowicz, Andrzej J ^a   Bohach, Gregory A ^a,b   Minnich, Scott A ^a   Hovde, Carolyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN X; PROTEIN X; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADHESION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LETHAL DOSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIC PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLAGUE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEQUENCE DELETION; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 78649976494     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00783-10     Document Type: Article

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