Identification and characterization of the genes involved in glycosylation pathways of mycobacterial glycopeptidolipid biosynthesis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 86-95

  Miyamoto, Yuji ^a   Mukai, Tetsu ^a   Nakata, Noboru ^a   Maeda, Yumi ^a   Kai, Masanori ^a   Naka, Takashi ^b   Yano, Ikuya ^b   Makino, Masahiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Kiyose   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 DEOXYTREHALOSE; FATTY ACID; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GLYCOPEPTIDOLIPID; LIPID; O METHYLRHAMNOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; RHAMNOSE; TETRAPEPTIDE; TREHALOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOLIPID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GLYCOSYLATION; GTF1 GENE; GTF2 GENE; GTF3 GENE; GTF4 GENE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LIPOGENESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GLYCOSYLATION; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RHAMNOSE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 33644899427     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.1.86-95.2006     Document Type: Article

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