The transferrin-iron import system from pathogenic Neisseria species

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 246-257

  Noinaj, Nicholas ^a   Buchanan, Susan K ^a   Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN G; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN A; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN B;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG APPROVAL; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INFECTION PREVENTION; IRON TRANSPORT; MENINGITIS; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IRON; NEISSERIA; TRANSFERRIN;

NEISSERIA;

EID: 84867447865     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12002     Document Type: Review

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