Dual Pili Post-translational Modifications Synergize to Mediate Meningococcal Adherence to Platelet Activating Factor Receptor on Human Airway Cells

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Jen, Freda E C ^a   Warren, Matthew J ^b   Schulz, Benjamin L ^b   Power, Peter M ^c   Swords, W Edward ^d   Weiser, Jeffery N ^e   Apicella, Michael A ^f   Edwards, Jennifer L ^g   Jennings, Michael P ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCAN; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MEMBRANE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 84878514516     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003377     Document Type: Article

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