2016 journal article

Listeria monocytogenes wall teichoic acid decoration in virulence and cell-to-cell spread

MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, 101(5), 714–730.

By: P. Spears n, E. Havell n, T. Hamrick*, J. Goforth*, A. Levine*, S. Abraham*, C. Heiss*, P. Azadi*, P. Orndorff n

MeSH headings : Animals; Bacteriophages / metabolism; Cell Membrane / metabolism; Cell Wall / metabolism; Female; Listeria monocytogenes / metabolism; Listeria monocytogenes / pathogenicity; Listeriosis / microbiology; Liver / microbiology; Mice; Mutation; Peptidoglycan / metabolism; Spleen / microbiology; Teichoic Acids / metabolism; Virulence
TL;DR: Identification and interruption of WTA decoration pathways may provide a general strategy to discover non‐antibiotic therapeutics for gram positive infections. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: August 6, 2018

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