Article
Translocation and surface expression of lipidated serogroup B capsular Polysaccharide in Neisseria meningitidis.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 2005
Tzeng Yih-Ling, Datta Anup K, Strole Cristy A, Lobritz Michael A, Carlson Russell W, Stephens David S
Abstract excerpt
The capsule of N. meningitidis serogroup B, (alpha2-->8)-linked polysialic acid and the capsules of other meningococcal serogroups and of other gram-negative bacterial pathogens are anchored in the outer membrane through a 1,2-diacylglycerol moiety. Previous work on the meningococcal cps complex...
Topics
- Bacterial Capsules
- Bacterial Proteins
- Blood Bactericidal Activity
- Flow Cytometry
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Lipids
- Mutation
- Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup B
- Phosphatidic Acids
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization