Molecular structure of the gene cluster responsible for the synthesis of the polysaccharide capsule of Streptococcus pneumoniae type 33F

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1443, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 217-224

  Llull, Daniel ^a   López, Rubens ^a   García, Ernesto ^a   Muñoz, Rosario ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

(Pneumococcus); Capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PNEUMOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0345040185     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(98)00213-9     Document Type: Article

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