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Very long O-antigen chains enhance fitness during Salmonella-induced colitis by increasing bile resistance.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Sept 2012
Crawford Robert W, Keestra A Marijke, Winter Sebastian E, Xavier Mariana N, Tsolis Renée M, Tolstikov Vladimir, Bäumler Andreas J
Abstract excerpt
Intestinal inflammation changes the luminal habitat for microbes through mechanisms that have not been fully resolved. We noticed that the FepE regulator of very long O-antigen chain assembly in the enteric pathogen Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) conferred a luminal fitness advantage in the mouse colitis model. However, a fepE mutant was not defective for survival in tissue, resistance...
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