Disarming Burkholderia pseudomallei: Structural and Functional Characterization of a Disulfide Oxidoreductase (DsbA) Required for Virulence In Vivo.
Ireland, P.M., McMahon, R.M., Marshall, L.E., Halili, M., Furlong, E., Tay, S., Martin, J.L., Sarkar-Tyson, M.(2014) Antioxid Redox Signal 20: 606-617
- PubMed: 23901809 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/ars.2013.5375
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4K2D - PubMed Abstract: 
The intracellular pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei causes the disease melioidosis, a major source of morbidity and mortality in southeast Asia and northern Australia. The need to develop novel antimicrobials is compounded by the absence of a licensed vaccine and the bacterium's resistance to multiple antibiotics. In a number of clinically relevant Gram-negative pathogens, DsbA is the primary disulfide oxidoreductase responsible for catalyzing the formation of disulfide bonds in secreted and membrane-associated proteins. In this study, a putative B. pseudomallei dsbA gene was evaluated functionally and structurally and its contribution to infection assessed.
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1 Defence Science and Technology Laboratory , Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom .