Pseudomonas aeruginosa B-band lipopolysaccharide genes wbpA and wbpI and their Escherichia coli homologues wecC and wecB are not functionally interchangeable

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 135-141

  Burrows, Lori L ^a,b   Pigeon, Kathryn E ^c   Lam, Joseph S ^c  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dehydrogenase; Enterobacterial common antigen; Epimerase; Lipopolysaccharide; O antigen; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; WbpA; WbpI

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; EPIMERASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; O ANTIGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRISACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; O ANTIGENS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0034663883     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00263-9     Document Type: Article

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