Ching Ju Chen

Summary

Affiliation: University of North Carolina
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi A mutant form of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilus secretin protein PilQ allows increased entry of heme and antimicrobial compounds
    Ching Ju Chen
    Department of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7031, USA
    J Bacteriol 186:730-9. 2004
  2. ncbi Point mutations in HpuB enable gonococcal HpuA deletion mutants to grow on hemoglobin
    Ching-ju Chen
    Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
    J Bacteriol 184:420-6. 2002

Detail Information

Publications2

  1. ncbi A mutant form of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilus secretin protein PilQ allows increased entry of heme and antimicrobial compounds
    Ching Ju Chen
    Department of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7031, USA
    J Bacteriol 186:730-9. 2004
    ..These results show that PilQ forms a channel that allows entry of heme and certain antimicrobial compounds and that a gain-of function point mutation in pilQ results in TonB-independent, PilT-dependent increase of entry...
  2. ncbi Point mutations in HpuB enable gonococcal HpuA deletion mutants to grow on hemoglobin
    Ching-ju Chen
    Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
    J Bacteriol 184:420-6. 2002
    ..Thus, HpuB point mutants internalized heme in the absence of HpuA despite reduced binding of Hb. HpuA facilitated Hb binding and was important in allowing use of heme from Hb for growth...