Staphylococcus aureus golden pigment impairs neutrophil killing and promotes virulence through its antioxidant activity

Golden color imparted by carotenoid pigments is the eponymous feature of the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Here we demonstrate a role of this hallmark phenotype in virulence. Compared with the wild-type (WT) bacterium, a S. aureus mutant with disrupted carotenoid biosynthesis is more suscept...

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Main Authors: Liu, George Y., Essex, Anthony, Buchanan, John T., Datta, Vivekanand, Hoffman, Hal M., Bastian, John F., Fierer, Joshua, Nizet, Victor
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 2005
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2213009/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16009720
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20050846
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