Identification and characterization of the N-acetylglucosamine glycosyltransferase gene of Haemophilus ducreyi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 5887-5892

  Sun, Shuhua ^a   Scheffler, N Karoline ^a   Gibson, Bradford W ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Munson Jr , Robert S ^a  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENZYME ISOLATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 0036786513     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.10.5887-5892.2002     Document Type: Article

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