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Identification of Francisella tularensis live vaccine strain CuZn superoxide dismutase as critical for resistance to extracellularly generated reactive oxygen species.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 2009
Melillo Amanda A, Mahawar Manish, Sellati Timothy J, Malik Meenakshi, Metzger Dennis W, Melendez J Andres, Bakshi Chandra Shekhar
Abstract excerpt
Francisella tularensis is an intracellular pathogen whose survival is in part dependent on its ability to resist the microbicidal activity of host-generated reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS). In numerous bacterial pathogens, CuZn-containing superoxide dismutases (SodC) are important virulence factors, localizing to the periplasm to offer protection from host-derived superoxide...
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