Bordetella pertussis waaa encodes a monofunctional 2-keto-3-deoxy-D- manno-octulosonic acid transferase that can complement an Escherichia coli waaA mutation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2648-2651

  Isobe, Tomoko ^a   White, Kimberley A ^b   Allen, Andrew G ^a   Peacock, Michael ^a   Raetz, Christian R H ^b   Maskell, Duncan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DEOXY MANNO OCTULOSONIC ACID; ACYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032938368     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.8.2648-2651.1999     Document Type: Article

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