Variation of gonococcal lipooligosaccharide structure is due to alterations in poly-G tracts in lgt genes encoding glycosyl transferases

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 323-327

  Yang, Qing Ling ^a   Gotschlich, Emil C ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; LIPID ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLY G; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030032275     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.1.323     Document Type: Article

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