Mycobacterial arabinan biosynthesis: The use of synthetic arabinoside acceptors in the development of an arabinosyl transfer assay

Glycobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1121-1128

  Lee, Richard E ^a,b   Brennan, Patrick J ^b   Besra, Gurdyal S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptor; Arabinan; Biosynthesis; Glycosyltransferase assay; Mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GLYCOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DISACCHARIDES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; POLYSACCHARIDES; TRISACCHARIDES;

EID: 0031444647     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/7.8.1121     Document Type: Article

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