A single nucleotide exchange in the wzy gene is responsible for the semirough O6 lipopolysaccharide phenotype and serum sensitivity of Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 5912-5925

  Grozdanov, Lubomir ^a   Zähringer, Ulrich ^a   Blum Oehler, Gabriele ^a   Brade, Lore ^a   Henne, Anke ^a   Knirel, Yuriy A ^a   Schombel, Ursula ^a   Schulze, Jürgen ^a   Sonnenborn, Ulrich ^a   Gottschalk, Gerhard ^a   Hacker, Jörg ^a   Rietschel, Ernst T ^a   Dobrindt, Ulrich ^a  

^a Inst F Molec Infektionsbiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPID A; O ANTIGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN WA; PROTEIN WB; PROTEIN WZY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COSMID; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEOTIDES; O ANTIGENS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PHENOTYPE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036838010     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.21.5912-5925.2002     Document Type: Article

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