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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Huvudupphovsmän: Liu, George Y., Essex, Anthony, Buchanan, John T., Datta, Vivekanand, Hoffman, Hal M., Bastian, John F., Fierer, Joshua, Nizet, Victor
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: The Rockefeller University Press 2005
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Brief Definitive Report
Länkar: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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