Ureaplasma diversum genome provides new insights about the interaction of the surface molecules of this bacterium with the host

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Marques, Lucas M ^a,b,c   Rezende, Izadora S ^a,b   Barbosa, Maysa S ^a,b   Guimarã, Ana M S ^a,d   Martins, Hellen B ^b,c   Campos, Guilherme B ^a   Nascimento, Naíla C Do ^d   Santos, Andrea P Dos ^d   Amorim, Aline T ^a   Santos, Verena M ^a   Farias, Sávio T ^e   Barrence, Fernanda É C ^a   De Souza, Lauro M ^f   Buzinhani, Melissa ^a   Arana Chavez, Victor E ^a   Zenteno, Maria E ^a   Amarante Mendes, Gustavo P ^a   Messick, Joanne B ^d   Timenetsky, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c University of Santa Cruz (UESC)   (Brazil)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA PELÉ PEQUENO PRÍNCIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOLYSIN; INFLAMMASOME; LIPOPROTEIN; MANNOSE; MEMBRANE NUCLEASE LIPOPROTEIN; MULTIPLE BANDED ANTIGEN LIKE PROTEIN; MYCOPLASMA IMMUNOGLOBULIN BINDING PROTEIN; MYCOPLASMA IMMUNOGLOBULIN PROTEASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA; UREASE; VARIABLE SURFACE ANTIGEN LIPOPROTEIN; XYLOSE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYDROLYSIS; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RNA GENE; UREAPLASMA DIVERSUM; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOPLASMA; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTION;

BASE COMPOSITION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFLAMMASOMES; LIPOPROTEINS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MYCOPLASMA; PHOSPHOLIPASES; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREASE;

EID: 84991738634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161926     Document Type: Article

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