Lactobacillus Proteins Are Associated with the Bactericidal Activity against E. coli of Female Genital Tract Secretions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Kalyoussef, Sabah ^a   Nieves, Edward ^a   Dinerman, Ellen ^a   Carpenter, Colleen ^a   Shankar, Viswanathan ^a   Oh, Jamie ^a   Burd, Berta ^a   Angeletti, Ruth H ^a   Buckheit, Karen W ^b   Fredricks, David N ^c   Madan, Rebecca P ^a   Keller, Marla J ^a   Herold, Betsy C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ImQuest Biosciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RANTES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFECTION RISK; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; MICROBIOME; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL INFECTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEOMICS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; VAGINAL SECRETION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CERVIX UTERI; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VAGINA; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII;

EID: 84869782320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049506     Document Type: Article

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