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Saldías, M. Soledad; Patel, Kinnari; Marolda, Cristina L.; Bittner, Mauricio; Contreras, Inés; Valvano, Miguel A. (2008)WbaP is a membrane enzyme that initiates O antigen synthesis in Salmonella enterica by catalysing the transfer of galactose 1-phosphate (Gal-1-P) onto undecaprenyl phosphate (Und-P). WbaP possesses at least three predicted ...
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Carter, Javier A.; Jiménez, Juan C.; Zaldívar, Mercedes; Álvarez, Sergio A.; Marolda, Cristina L.; Valvano, Miguel A.; Contreras, Inés (2009)The lipopolysaccharide O antigen of Shigella flexneri 2a has two preferred chain lengths, a short (S-OAg) composed of an average of 17 repeated units and a very long (VL-OAg) of about 90 repeated units. These chain length ...
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Hoare, Anilei; Bravo, Denisse; Martinić, Mara; Valvano, Miguel; Contreras, Inés; Álvarez, Sergio (2012)Shigella flexneri causes bacillary dysentery in humans. Essential to the establishment of the disease is the invasion of the colonic epithelial cells. Here we investigated the role of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O antigen ...
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Bravo, Denisse; Blondel, Carlos J.; Hoare, Anilei; Leyton Campos, Lisette; Valvano, Miguel A.; Contreras, Inés (2011)The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) has been proposed as an epithelial cell receptor for the entry of Salmonella Typhi but not Salmonella Typhimurium. The bacterial ligand recognized by CFTR is ...