Coating the surface: A model for expression of capsular polysialic acid in Escherichia coli K1

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-231

  Bliss, Joseph M ^a   Silver, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSIALIC ACID;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0029766843     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.6461357.x     Document Type: Review

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