Synthesis of the A-band polysaccharide sugar D-rhamnose requires Rmd and WbpW: Identification of multiple AlgA homologues, WbpW and ORF488, in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1419-1434

  Rocchetta, Heather L ^a   Pacan, Jennifer C ^a   Lam, Joseph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CELL SURFACE MARKER; GENE PRODUCT; MANNOSE 1 PHOSPHATE GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; MANNOSE PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; O ANTIGEN; PHOSPHOMANNOMUTASE; RHAMNOSE; RNA PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MANNOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON ALDEHYDE OR OXO GROUP DONORS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHAMNOSE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 0031694055     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01024.x     Document Type: Article

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