Proposed pathway for the biosynthesis of serovar-specific glycopeptidolipids in Myobacterium avium serovar 2

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2797-2807

  Eckstein, Torsten M ^a   Belisle, John T ^a   Inamine, Julia M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LIPOPEPTIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GLYCOSYLATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. SILVATICUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0142042866     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26528-0     Document Type: Article

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