The wavB gene of Vibrio cholerae and the waaE of Klebsiella pneumoniae codify for a β-1,4-glucosyltransferase involved in the transfer of a glucose residue to the L-glycero-D-manno-heptose I in the lipopolysaccharide inner core

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 211-216

  Izquierdo, Luis ^a   Merino, Susana ^a   Coderch, Nuria ^a   Regué, Miguel ^a   Tomás, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Klebsiella pneumoniae waaE; Lipopolysaccharide core; Vibrio cholerae wavB

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BETA 1,4 GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; LEVO GLYCERO DEXTRO MANNOHEPTOSE 1; MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN WAVB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SERUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO MIMICUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEPTOSES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO MIMICUS;

EID: 0037027550     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01027-3     Document Type: Article

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