Identification of a gene essential for O-acetylation of the Staphylococcus aureus type 5 capsular polysaccharide

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-21

  Bhasin, Navneet ^a   Albus, Anne ^a,c   Michon, Francis ^b   Livolsi, Paul J ^a   Park, Jin Sir ^a   Lee, Jean C ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b North American Vaccine Inc   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSPOSON;

ABSCESS; ACETYLATION; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; KIDNEY DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0031973763     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00646.x     Document Type: Article

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