The role of oxidoreductases in determining the function of the neisserial lipid a phosphoethanolamine transferase required for resistance to polymyxin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Piek, Susannah ^a   Wang, Zhirui ^b   Ganguly, Jhuma ^b,e   Lakey, Adam M ^a   Bartley, Stephanie N ^a   Mowlaboccus, Shakeel ^a   Anandan, Anandhi ^a   Stubbs, Keith A ^a   Scanlon, Martin J ^c,d   Vrielink, Alice ^a   Azadi, Parastoo ^b   Carlson, Russell W ^b   Kahler, Charlene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHANOLAMINE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; KANAMYCIN; LIPID A; LIPOOLIGOSACCHARIDE PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE TRANSFERASE A; OXIDOREDUCTASE; POLYMYXIN; PROTEIN DSBA1; PROTEIN DSBA2; PROTEIN DSBA3; PROTEIN ECDSBA; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DISULFIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; BIOCATALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; DISULFIDES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOLAMINEPHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PERIPLASM; POLYMYXINS;

EID: 84907795327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106513     Document Type: Article

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