Antibodies with Higher Bactericidal Activity Induced by a Neisseria gonorrhoeae Rmp Deletion Mutant Strain

G Li, R Xie, X Zhu, Y Mao, S Liu, H Jiao, H Yan… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Neisseria gonorrhoeae (N. gonorrhoeae) outer membrane protein reduction modifiable
protein (Rmp) has strong immunogenicity. However, anti-Rmp antibodies block rather than …

A laboratory-based predictive pathway for the development of Neisseria gonorrhoeae high-level resistance to corallopyronin A, an inhibitor of bacterial RNA …

JT Balthazar, D Golparian, M Unemo… - Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
The continued emergence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains that express resistance to
multiple antibiotics, including the last drug for empiric monotherapy (ceftriaxone) …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Adaptation and Survival in the Urogenital Tract

AE Jerse - Persistent Bacterial Infections, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Uncomplicated gonorrhea is most commonly an acute urogenital infection involving the
urethra in men and the endocervix in women of reproductive age. Upon entering the …

A novel mechanism of high-level, broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance caused by a single base pair change in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

EA Ohneck, YM Zalucki, PJT Johnson, V Dhulipala… - MBio, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The MtrC-MtrD-MtrE multidrug efflux pump of Neisseria gonorrhoeae confers
resistance to a diverse array of antimicrobial agents by transporting these toxic compounds …

Differential Regulation of ponA and pilMNOPQ Expression by the MtrR Transcriptional Regulatory Protein in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

JP Folster, V Dhulipala, RA Nicholas… - Journal of …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Neisseria gonorrhoeae utilizes the mtrCDE-encoded efflux pump system to resist not only
host-derived, hydrophobic antimicrobials that bathe mucosal surfaces, which likely aids in its …

Characterization of the effects of iron on Neisseria gonorrhoeae surface protein modulation and host cell interactions

A Oki - 2014 - scholarscompass.vcu.edu
Iron is an essential nutrient that is sequestered by iron-binding proteins in the human host
resulting in a hostile environment for microbes. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, however, can utilize …

Transcriptome analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae during natural infection reveals differential expression of antibiotic resistance determinants between men and …

K Nudel, R McClure, M Moreau, E Briars, AJ Abrams… - Msphere, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a bacterial pathogen responsible for the sexually transmitted
infection gonorrhea. Emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of N. gonorrhoeae …

Cloning and functional characterization of Neisseria gonorrhoeae tonB, exbB and exbD genes

GD Biswas, JE Anderson… - Molecular microbiology, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is able to utilize iron (Fe) from a variety of sources including
transferrin (TF) and lactoferrin (LF). To gain insight into the molecular mechanisms used by …

Identification of sRNAs expressed by the human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae under disparate growth conditions

R McClure, B Tjaden, C Genco - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
In the last several years, bacterial gene regulation via small RNAs (sRNAs) has been
recognized as an important mechanism controlling expression of essential proteins that are …

The small FNR regulon of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: comparison with the larger Escherichia coli FNR regulon and interaction with the NarQ-NarP regulon

RN Whitehead, TW Overton, LAS Snyder, SJ McGowan… - BMC genomics, 2007 - Springer
Background Neisseria gonorrhoeae can survive during oxygen starvation by reducing nitrite
to nitrous oxide catalysed by the nitrite and nitric oxide reductases, AniA and NorB. The …