Temperature triggers immune evasion by Neisseria meningitidis

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7470, 2013, Pages 237-240

  Loh, Edmund ^a   Kugelberg, Elisabeth ^b   Tracy, Alexander ^a   Zhang, Qian ^b   Gollan, Bridget ^b   Ewles, Helen ^b   Chalmers, Ronald ^c   Pelicic, Vladimir ^b   Tang, Christoph M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

BACTERIUM; COMMENSAL; DISEASE; IMMUNITY; MENINGITIS; PROTEIN; RNA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOREGULATION; VIRULENCE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNITY; INFLUENZA; MIXED INFECTION; NASOPHARYNX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIALYLATION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMORECEPTOR; THERMOREGULATION; VIRULENCE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSENSING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 84885611420     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12616     Document Type: Article

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