Conserved structural regions involved in the catalytic mechanism of Escherichia coli K-12 WaaO (RfaI)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 5313-5318

  Shibayama, Keigo ^a   Ohsuka, Shinji ^a   Tanaka, Toshihiko ^a   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^b   Ohta, Michio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0031680539     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.20.5313-5318.1998     Document Type: Article

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