Endotoxin of Neisseria meningitidis composed only of intact lipid A: Inactivation of the meningococcal 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid transferase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2379-2388

  Tzeng, Yih Ling ^a   Datta, Anup ^a   Kumar Kolli, V ^a   Carlson, Russell W ^a   Stephens, David S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DEOXY MANNO OCTULOSONIC ACID; 3 DEOXY MANNO OCTULOSONIC ACID TRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; ENDOTOXIN; LIPID A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ALLELES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUGAR ACIDS; TRANSFERASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0036224087     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.9.2379-2388.2002     Document Type: Article

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