Loss of a Branch Sugar in the Acinetobacter baumannii K3-Type Capsular Polysaccharide Due To Frameshifts in the gtr6 Glycosyltransferase Gene Leads To Susceptibility To Phage APK37.1

Autor: Olga Y. Timoshina, Anastasiya A. Kasimova, Mikhail M. Shneider, Nikolay P. Arbatsky, Alexander S. Shashkov, Andrey A. Shelenkov, Yuliya V. Mikhailova, Anastasiya V. Popova, Ruth M. Hall, Yuriy A. Knirel, Johanna J. Kenyon
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Microbiology Spectrum. 11
ISSN: 2165-0497
Popis: Lytic bacteriophage have potential for the treatment of otherwise untreatable extensively antibiotic-resistant bacteria. For Acinetobacter baumannii , most phage exhibit specificity for the type of capsular polysaccharide (CPS) produced on the cell surface.
Databáze: OpenAIRE