The lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis locus of Campylobacter jejuni 81116

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2049-2061

  Fry, Ben N ^a,b   Korolik, Victoria ^b   Ten Brinke, Janna A ^a   Pennings, Maarten T T ^b   Zalm, Robert ^a   Teunis, Bart J J ^a   Coloe, Peter J ^b   Van Der Zeijst, Bernard A M ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Campylobacter jejuni; Lipo oligosaccharide (LOS); Lipopolysaccharide (LPS); O antigen; rfb gene cluster

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; COSMID; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CAMPYLOBACTER HYOILEI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031666815     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-8-2049     Document Type: Article

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