Identification of Acinetobacter baumannii loci for capsular polysaccharide (KL) and lipooligosaccharide outer core (OCL) synthesis in genome assemblies using curated …

KL Wyres, SM Cahill, KE Holt, RM Hall… - Microbial …, 2019 - microbiologyresearch.org
Multiply antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections are a global public health
concern and accurate tracking of the spread of specific lineages is needed. Variation in the …

Diversity and Function of Capsular Polysaccharide in Acinetobacter baumannii

JK Singh, FG Adams, MH Brown - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Gram-negative opportunistic bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant cause
of hospital-borne infections worldwide. Alarmingly, the rapid development of antimicrobial …

Flagellin glycosylation with pseudaminic acid in Campylobacter and Helicobacter: prospects for development of novel therapeutics

AIM Salah Ud-Din, A Roujeinikova - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Many pathogenic bacteria require flagella-mediated motility to colonise and persist in their
hosts. Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni are flagellated epsilonproteobacteria …

Recent progress on the chemical synthesis of bacterial non-2-ulosonic acids

X Guo, P Li, H Liu, X Li - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacteria resistant to antibiotics present a threat to public health. The bacterial non-2-
ulosonic acids, including pseudaminic acid, legionaminic acid, acinetaminic acid, fusaminic …

An update to the database for Acinetobacter baumannii capsular polysaccharide locus typing extends the extensive and diverse repertoire of genes found at and …

SM Cahill, RM Hall, JJ Kenyon - Microbial Genomics, 2022 - microbiologyresearch.org
Several novel non-antibiotic therapeutics for the critical priority bacterial pathogen,
Acinetobacter baumannii, rely on specificity to the cell-surface capsular polysaccharide …

Five decades of genome evolution in the globally distributed, extensively antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii global clone 1

K Holt, JJ Kenyon, M Hamidian… - Microbial …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
The majority of Acinetobacter baumannii isolates that are multiply, extensively and pan-
antibiotic resistant belong to two globally disseminated clones, GC1 and GC2, that were first …

Semi‐Synthetic Glycoconjugate Vaccine Lead Against Acinetobacter baumannii 17978

J Sianturi, P Priegue, J Hu, J Yin… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Acinetobacter baumannii is a opportunistic bacterial pathogen responsible for serious
nosocomial infections that is becoming increasingly resistant against antibiotics. Capsular …

Comparative analysis of surface-exposed virulence factors of Acinetobacter baumannii

BA Eijkelkamp, UH Stroeher, KA Hassan, IT Paulsen… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant hospital pathogen, particularly due to
the dissemination of highly multidrug resistant isolates. Genome data have revealed that A …

Ability of phages to infect Acinetobacter calcoaceticus‐Acinetobacter baumannii complex species through acquisition of different pectate lyase depolymerase …

H Oliveira, AR Costa, N Konstantinides… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteriophages are ubiquitous in nature and represent a vast repository of genetic diversity,
which is driven by the endless coevolution cycle with a diversified group of bacterial hosts …

Synthetic Pseudaminic-Acid-Based Antibacterial Vaccine Confers Effective Protection against Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

R Wei, X Yang, H Liu, T Wei, S Chen, X Li - ACS central science, 2021 - ACS Publications
Acinetobacter baumannii exhibits resistance to most first-line antibiotics; thus, development
of new antibacterial agents is urgently required. Pseudaminic acid exists as the surface …