Phosphorylation of the lipid A region of meningococcal lipopolysaccharide: Identification of a family of transferases that add phosphoethanolamine to lipopolysaccharide

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3270-3277

  Cox, Andrew D ^a   Wright, J Claire ^b   Li, Jianjun ^a   Hood, Derek W ^b   Moxon, E Richard ^b   Richards, James C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LIPID A; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LPT 3 GENE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NMB1638 GENE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ETHANOLAMINEPHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; ETHANOLAMINES; HUMANS; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHOSPHORYLATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0037797311     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.11.3270-3277.2003     Document Type: Article

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