Host glycan sugar-specific pathways in streptococcus pneumonia: Galactose as a key sugar in colonisation and infection

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Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Paixão, Laura ^a   Oliveira, Joana ^a   Veríssimo, André ^b   Vinga, Susana ^c   Lourenço, Eva C ^a   Ventura, M Rita ^a   Kjos, Morten ^c   Veening, Jan Willem ^c   Fernandes, Vitor E ^d   Andrew, Peter W ^d   Yesilkaya, Hasan ^d   Neves, Ana Rute ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e Hansen A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; CARBOHYDRATES AND CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVES; ENZYME; FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GALACTOKINASE; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; GLYCAN; MANNOSE; MANNOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MUCIN; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 6 PHOSPHATE DEACETYLASE; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; TAGATOSE 1,6 DIPHOSPHATE; TAGATOSE 1,6 DIPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BGAA GENE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; GALK GENE; GALM GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; LACAB GENE; LACD GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRH GENE; SURVIVAL; UPREGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VIRULENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

GALACTOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUCINS; POLYSACCHARIDES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84926329287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121042     Document Type: Article

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