Covalent linkage between the capsular polysaccharide and the cell wall peptidoglycan of Streptococcus pneumoniae revealed by immunochemical methods

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 325-334

  Sørensen, Uffe B Skov ^a,b   Henrichsen, Jørgen ^b   Chen, Hao Chia ^a   Szu, Shousun Chen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C polysaccharide; capsule; cell wall; peptidoglycan; pneumococci; polysaccharides

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PRONASE;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; COVALENT BOND; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEAT TREATMENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENDOPEPTIDASES; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0025083176     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0882-4010(90)90091-4     Document Type: Article

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