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Temperature-dependent phenotypic variation of Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharides.
BMC microbiology - 30 Nov 2010
Semchenko Evgeny A, Day Christopher J, Wilson Jennifer C, Grice I Darren, Moran Anthony P, Korolik Victoria
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Campylobacter jejuni is a major bacterial cause of food-borne enteritis, and its lipooligosaccharide (LOS) plays an initiating role in the development of the autoimmune neuropathy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, by induction of anti-neural cross-reactive antibodies through ganglioside molecular mimicry. RESULTS: Herein we describe the existence and heterogeneity of multiple LOS forms in C. jejuni strains of...
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