Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 NodZ protein is a fucosyltransferase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 5087-5093

  Quesada Vincens, Dolores ^a   Fellay, Rémy ^a   Nasim, Talat ^a   Viprey, Virginie ^a   Burger, Ulrich ^a   Promé, Jean Claude ^b   Broughton, William J ^a   Jabbouri, Saïd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ACYLATION; ARTICLE; FUCOSYLATION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RHIZOBIUM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0030872575     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.16.5087-5093.1997     Document Type: Article

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