Glycosylation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 pilin: Glycan substrate specificity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 519-530

  DiGiandomenico, Antonio ^a   Matewish, Mauricia J ^b   Bisaillon, Amy ^b   Stehle, John R ^a   Lam, Joseph S ^b   Castric, Peter ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCAN; GLYCOSYLATED PROTEIN; O ANTIGEN; PILIN;

ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; HYDRO-LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEDYOTIS MANNII; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0036431682     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03171.x     Document Type: Article

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