Molecular genetics, biochemistry and biological role of Yersinia lipopolysaccharide

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 187-197

  Skurnik, Mikael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPID A; O ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE; TRANSFERASE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GSK GENE; HEMH GENE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; YERSINIA;

CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0037792929     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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