A single amino acid substitution in a mannosyltransferase, WbdA, converts the Escherichia coli O9 polysaccharide into O9a: Generation of a new O-serotype group

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2567-2573

  Kido, Nobuo ^a   Kobayashi, Hidemitsu ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; KLEBSIELLA; MANNOSE; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; POLYMERS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEROTYPING;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034001609     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.9.2567-2573.2000     Document Type: Article

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