Relationship between UDP-glucose 4-epimerase activity and oligoglucose glycoforms in two strains of Neisseria meningitidis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1405-1414

  Lee, Frank K N ^a   Gibson, Bradford W ^b   Melaugh, William ^b   Zaleski, Anthony ^a   Apicella, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIMERASE; GLUCOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE CASSETTE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033015704     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.3.1405-1414.1999     Document Type: Article

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