ABC transporters and the export of capsular polysaccharides from Gram-negative bacteria

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 357-364

  Silver, Richard P ^a   Prior, Kelli ^a   Nsahlai, Christiane ^a   Wright, Lori F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsules; Escherichia coli K1; Kps cluster; Polysaccharides; TolC

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035003423     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-2508(01)01207-4     Document Type: Article

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