N. elongata produces type IV pili that mediate interspecies gene transfer with N. gonorrhoeae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Higashi, Dustin L ^a   Biais, Nicolas ^c   Weyand, Nathan J ^a   Agellon, Al ^b   Sisko, Jennifer L ^a   Brown, Lewis M ^c   So, Magdalene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIMBRIA; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NEISSERIA ELONGATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA ELONGATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEISSERIA ELONGATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; RIFAMPIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 79959420583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021373     Document Type: Article

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