Evidence for the Cytoplasmic Localization of the L-α-Glycerophosphate Oxidase in Members of the "<i>Mycoplasma mycoides</i> Cluster".

ABSTRACT: Members of the "Mycoplasma mycoides cluster" are important animal pathogens causing diseases including contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, which are of utmost importance in Africa or Asia. Even if all existing vaccines have shortcomings, vaccination of herds is still considered the best way to fight mycoplasma diseases, especially with the recent and dramatic increase of antimicrobial resistance observed in many mycoplasma species. A new generation of vaccines will benefit from a better understanding of the pathogenesis of mycoplasmas, which is very patchy up to now. In particular, surface-exposed virulence traits are likely to induce a protective immune response when formulated in a vaccine. The candidate virulence factor L-α-glycerophosphate o

SUBMITTER: Schumacher M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6593217 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature