Lipopolysaccharides mediate leukotoxin secretion in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

Molecular Oral Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 70-82

  Tang, G ^a   Kawai, T ^b   Komatsuzawa, H ^c   Mintz, K P ^a  

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

^b FORSYTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leukotoxin; Lipopolysaccharides; TolC; Type I secretion system

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; FC RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; LEUKOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; O ANTIGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CULTURE MEDIUM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PHENOTYPE; TYPE I SECRETION SYSTEM; WILD TYPE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; EXOTOXINS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84858050276     PISSN: 20411006     EISSN: 20411014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-1014.2011.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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