Zinc Piracy as a Mechanism of Neisseria meningitidis for Evasion of Nutritional Immunity

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Stork, Michiel ^a,d   Grijpstra, Jan ^a   Bos, Martine P ^a   Mañas Torres, Carmen ^a,e   Devos, Nathalie ^b   Poolman, Jan T ^b,f   Chazin, Walter J ^c   Tommassen, Jan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GSK   (Belgium)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Intravacc   (Netherlands)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^f CRUCELL HOLLAND BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALGRANULIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CBPA GENE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; ION TRANSPORT; IRON; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MANGANESE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHILS; ZINC;

EID: 84887281591     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003733     Document Type: Article

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