Lipopolysaccharide O-antigen of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 is required for killing both insects and mammals

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 333, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-68

  Miyashita, Atsushi ^a   Iyoda, Sunao ^b   Ishii, Kenichi ^a   Hamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Sekimizu, Kazuhisa ^a   Kaito, Chikara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; Lipopolysaccharide O antigen; Silkworm model; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY FLUID; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; HEMOLYMPH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RFBE GENE; SILKWORM; WAAL GENE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BOMBYX; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYMPH; HOT TEMPERATURE; INSECT PROTEINS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; O ANTIGENS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SWINE; TRANSAMINASES;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84863846116     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2012.02599.x     Document Type: Article

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