| Literature DB >> 24820072 |
Justin L Kandler1, Sandeep J Joseph2, Jacqueline T Balthazar1, Vijaya Dhulipala1, Timothy D Read2, Ann E Jerse3, William M Shafer4.
Abstract
Phosphoethanolamine (PEA) decoration of lipid A produced by Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been linked to bacterial resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides/proteins (CAMPs) and in vivo fitness during experimental infection. We now report that the lptA gene, which encodes the PEA transferase responsible for this decoration, is in an operon and that high-frequency mutation in a polynucleotide repeat within lptA can influence gonococcal resistance to CAMPs.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24820072 PMCID: PMC4068544 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.03108-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191