Identification and characterization of the dTDP-rhamnose biosynthesis and transfer genes of the lipopolysaccharide-related rfb locus in Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1262-1267

  Mitchison, Marina ^a   Bulach, Dieter M ^a   Vinh, Tu ^a   Rajakumar, Kumar ^a   Faine, Solly ^a   Adler, Ben ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; RHAMNOSE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROCONVERSION; SPIROCHETE;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR COPENHAGENI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SPIROCHAETALES; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0031053420     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.4.1262-1267.1997     Document Type: Article

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