Characterization of the lipid-carrier involved in the synthesis of enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) and identification of a novel phosphoglyceride in a mutant of Salmonella typhimurium defective in ECA synthesis

Glycobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 557-567

  Rick, Paul D ^a   Hubbard, Gail L ^a   Kitaoka, Masahiro ^b   Nagaki, Hidemi ^b   Kinoshita, Takeshi ^b   Dowd, Susan ^c   Simplaceanu, Virgil ^c   Ho, Chien ^c  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterobacterial common antigen; Phosphoglyceride; Undecaprenol

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; DIACYLGLYCEROL; ENTEROBACTERIAL COMMON ANTIGEN; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; GLYCOLIPID; LIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; GLYCOLIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHOSPHORUS ISOTOPES; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031841034     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/8.6.557     Document Type: Article

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