Identification of a D-glycero-D-manno-heptosyltransferase gene from Helicobacter pylori

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5156-5165

  Hiratsuka, Koji ^a   Logan, Susan M ^a   Conlan, J Wayne ^a   Chandan, Vandana ^a   Aubry, Annie ^a   Smirnova, Natalia ^a   Ulrichsen, Heather ^a   Chan, Kenneth H N ^a   Griffith, Douglas W ^a   Harrison, Blair A ^a   Li, Jianjun ^a   Altman, Eleonora ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1,2 DEXTRO GLYCERO DEXTRO MANNO HEPTOSYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; DEXTRAN; DEXTRO DEXTRO HEPTOGLYCAN; DEXTRO GLYCERO DEXTRO MANNO HEPTOSE; DEXTRO GLYCERO DEXTRO MANNO HEPTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; HEPTOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC CASSETTE SWAPPING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HP0479 GENE; INDUCED MUTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOMACH; VIRULENCE;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MURINAE;

EID: 22544465250     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.15.5156-5165.2005     Document Type: Article

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