First molecular characterization of a uridine diphosphate galacturonate 4-epimerase: An enzyme required for capsular biosynthesis in Streptococcus pneumoniae type 1

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 703-713

  Muñoz, Rosario ^a   Löpez, Rubens ^a   De Frutos, Mercedes ^b   García, Ernesto ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; EPIMERASE; HYDROXYMERCURIBENZOIC ACID; MERCAPTOETHANOL; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; SUGAR; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCURONIC ACID; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE XYLOSE; URIDINE PHOSPHATE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0032903807     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01211.x     Document Type: Article

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