Phase variation in Helicobacter priori lipopolysaccharide due to changes in the lengths of poly(C) tracts in α3-fucosyltransferase genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 5361-5366

  Appelmelk, Ben J ^a   Martin, Steve L ^b   Monteiro, Mario A ^c   Clayton, Chris A ^b   McColm, Andrew A ^b   Zheng, Pengyuan ^a,d   Verboom, Theo ^a   Maaskant, Janneke J ^a   Van Den Eijnden, Dirk H ^a   Hokke, Cornelis H ^a   Perry, Malcolm B ^c   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^a   Kusters, Johannes G ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH MUCOSA;

EID: 0032849754     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.10.5361-5366.1999     Document Type: Article

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