Genetic analysis of conservation and variation of lipooligosaccharide expression in two L8-immunotype strains of Neisseria meningitidis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 173-177

  Zhu, Peixuan ^a   Klutch, Michael J ^a   Tsai, Chao Ming ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycosyltransferase; lgt; Lipooligosaccharide; Neisseria

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN LGTA; PROTEIN LGTAH; PROTEIN LGTB; PROTEIN LGTC; PROTEIN LGTE; PROTEIN LGTH; PROTEIN LGTZ; PROTEIN LGTZCABE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0035949456     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00352-4     Document Type: Article

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