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Martinić, Mara; Hoare, Anilei; Contreras, Inés; Álvarez, Sergio A. (2011)Shigella flexneri is endemic in most underdeveloped countries, causing diarrheal disease and dysentery among young children. In order to reach its target site, the colon, Shigella must overcome the acid environment of the ...
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Blondel, Carlos J.; Jiménez, Juan C.; Leiva, Lorenzo E.; álvarez, Sergio A.; Pinto, Bernardo I.; Contreras, Francisca; Pezoa, David; Santiviago Cid, Carlos; Contreras, Inés (American Society for Microbiology, 2015)
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Fernández, Paulina; Velásquez, Felipe; Garcias-Papayani, Héctor; Amaya, Fernando; Ortega, Jaime; Gómez, Sebastian; Santiviago Cid, Carlos; Álvarez, Sergio A. (Frontiers Media SA., 2018-06)Lipid A is the bioactive component of lipopolysaccharide, and presents a dynamic structure that undergoes modifications in response to environmental signals. Many of these structural modifications influence Salmonella ...
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Oetiker, Nia; Norambuena, Rodrigo; Martínez-Bussenius, Cristóbal; Navarro, Claudio A.; Amaya, Fernando; Álvarez, Sergio A.; Paradela, Alberto; Jerez, Carlos A. (MDPI AG, 2018)© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans resists extremely high concentrations of copper. Strain ATCC 53993 is much more resistant to the metal compared with strain ATCC ...
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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 ...