Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus alters cell wall glycosylation to evade immunity

Nature

Volumn 563, Issue 7733, 2018, Pages 705-709

  Gerlach, David ^a,b   Guo, Yinglan ^a   De Castro, Cristina ^c   Kim, Sun Hwa ^d   Schlatterer, Katja ^a,b   Xu, Fei Fei ^e   Pereira, Claney ^e   Seeberger, Peter H ^e   Ali, Sara ^f   Codée, Jeroen ^f   Sirisarn, Wanchat ^g   Schulte, Berit ^a,b   Wolz, Christiane ^a,b   Larsen, Jesper ^h   Molinaro, Antonio ^c   Lee, Bok Luel ^d   Xia, Guoqing ^g   Stehle, Thilo ^a,i   Peschel, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^h STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

ⁱ VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; OXACILLIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS VACCINE; TEICHOIC ACID; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE; RIBITOL-5-PHOSPHATE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOPHILICITY; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VACCINATION; ADULT; ANIMAL; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CELL WALL; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PENTOSEPHOSPHATES; TEICHOIC ACIDS; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85057521600     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0730-x     Document Type: Article

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