Occurrence of an α-galacturonosyl-ceramide in the dioxin-degrading bacterium Sphingomonas wittichii

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 289-294

  Kawahara, Kazuyoshi ^a,b   Kubota, Masahiro ^b   Sato, Noriko ^b   Tsuge, Koichiro ^c   Seto, Yasuo ^c  

^a KITASATO INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dioxin; Galacturonosyl ceramide; Glycosphingolipid; Sphingomonas wittichii

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 1,3 OCTADECANEDIOL; 2 AMINO 13,14 METHYLENE 1,3 EICOSANEDIOL; 2 HYDROXYMYRISTIC ACID; ALPHA DEXTRO GALACTURONOSYLCERAMIDE; ALPHA DEXTRO GLUCURONOSYLCERAMIDE; DIOXIN; FATTY ACID; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; MYRISTIC ACID; SPHINGANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIPID ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS WITTICHII;

DIOXINS; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SPHINGOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS SP.; SPHINGOMONAS WITTICHII;

EID: 0037057130     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00912-6     Document Type: Article

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