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Gulcan Akgul1, Ali Erturk, Mustafa Turkoz, Tolga Turan, Akitoyo Ichinose, Tsuyoshi Nagatake, Kamruddin Ahmed.
Abstract
The goal of this study was to determine the role of lipooligosaccharide in the attachment of Moraxella catarrhalis to human pharyngeal epithelial cells. Strain 2951 and its P(k) mutant strain 2951 galE were used in this study. This study suggests that the P(k) epitope of LOS is not an adhesin for M. catarrhalis, but plays a crucial role by its surface charge in the initial stage of attachment.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16237271 DOI： 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2005.tb03685.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbiol Immunol ISSN： 0385-5600 Impact factor: 1.955