Genetic and biochemical evidence of a Campylobacter jejuni capsular polysaccharide that accounts for Penner serotype specificity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 529-541

  Karlyshev, Andrey V ^a   Linton, Dennis ^a   Gregson, Norman A ^b   Lastovica, Albert J ^c   Wren, Brendan W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; O ANTIGENS; PHOSPHOLIPASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROTYPING;

ACRONICTA LEPORINA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; MARTES PENNANTI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033951106     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01717.x     Document Type: Article

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