Post-translational modifications of meningococcal pili. Identification of common substituents: Glycans and α-glycerophosphate - A review

Gene

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 141-147

  Virji, Mumtaz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

glycerophosphate; Adhesins; Bacterial glycoproteins; Glycosylation; Neisseria; Neisseria meningitidis; Pili; Post translational modification

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; GLYCAN; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; SERINE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRISACCHARIDE;

BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; COVALENT BOND; DEGLYCOSYLATION; DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; GENE MUTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MORAXELLA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS; GALE; MORAXELLA BOVIS; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0030918282     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00082-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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