Sinorhizobium meliloti strain 1021 produces a low-molecular-mass capsular polysaccharide that is a homopolymer of 3-deoxy-D-manno-oct-2-ulosonic acid harboring a phospholipid anchor

Glycobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-108

  Fraysse, N ^a   Lindner, B ^b   Kaczynski, Z ^b   Sharypova, L ^a   Holst, O ^b   Niehaus, K ^a   Poinsot, V ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^c Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

Capsular polysaccharides; Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance; Phospholipic anchor; QTOF MS; Sinorhizobium meliloti

Indexed keywords

3 DEOXY MANNO OCTULOSONIC ACID; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIPID ANALYSIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BIOPOLYMERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SUGAR ACIDS;

SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI 1021;

EID: 13444282527     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwh142     Document Type: Article

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