The molecular mechanism of Zinc acquisition by the neisserial outer-membrane transporter ZnuD

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Calmettes, Charles ^a   Ing, Christopher ^a,b   Buckwalter, Carolyn M ^a   El Bakkouri, Majida ^c   Chieh Lin Lai, Christine ^a   Pogoutse, Anastassia ^a   Gray Owen, Scott D ^a   Pomès, Régis ^a,b   Moraes, Trevor F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN ZNUD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; ZNUD PROTEIN, NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; VACCINATION; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; HOST RESISTANCE; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; SEPSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MORAXELLACEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIACEAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEPSIS; ZINC;

EID: 84939606863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8996     Document Type: Article

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