Synthesis of an unusual polar glycopeptidolipid in glucose-limited culture of Mycobacterium smegmatis

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3039-3048

  Ojha, Anil Kr ^a   Varma, Saaket ^a   Chatterji, Dipankar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon starvation; Polar glycopeptidolipid

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLUCOSE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GLYCOPEPTIDOLIPID; MONOSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEROTYPE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036773714     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-10-3039     Document Type: Article

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