Identification of a novel gene involved in pilin glycosylation in Neisseria meningitidis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 975-984

  Jennings, Michael P ^a   Virji, Mumtaz ^b,e   Evans, Debbie ^b   Foster, Virginia ^b   Srikhanta, Yogitha N ^a   Steeghs, Liana ^c   Van Der Ley, Peter ^c   Moxon, E Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; GENE ISOLATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRISACCHARIDES; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALE; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0031866037     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00962.x     Document Type: Article

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