Diversity of Microbial Sialic Acid Metabolism

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 132-153

  Vimr, Eric R ^a,b   Kalivoda, Kathryn A ^a   Deszo, Eric L ^a   Steenbergen, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b 2522 VMBSB ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; NANAEK PROTEIN; NANT PROTEIN; NITROGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; SIALIC ACID; SIALIDASE; SIALYLATED OLIGOSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BINDING AFFINITY; CATABOLISM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL SURFACE; COMMENSALISM; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NAN OPERON; NANH GENE; NANR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITION; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SIALIC ACID METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542405315     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.1.132-153.2004     Document Type: Review

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