The modality of enterobacterial common antigen polysaccharide chain lengths is regulated by o349 of the wec gene cluster of Escherichia coli K-12

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 6564-6568

  Barr, Kathleen ^a   Klena, John ^b   Rick, Paul D ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE CLUSTER; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032692961     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.20.6564-6568.1999     Document Type: Article

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