The biochemistry and genetics of capsular polysaccharide production in bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 285-315

  Roberts, Ian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacteria; capsule; genetics; polysaccharide

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0029818808     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.285     Document Type: Review

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