Structural and genetic characterization of Shigella boydii type 17 O antigen and confirmation of two new genes involved in the synthesis of glucolactilic acid

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 349, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 289-295

  Senchenkova, Sof'ya N ^a   Feng, Lu ^b   Wang, Quan ^b   Perepelov, Andrei V ^a   Qin, Dan ^b   Shevelev, Sergei D ^a   Ren, Yi ^b   Shashkov, Alexander S ^a   Knirel, Yuriy A ^a   Wang, Lei ^b  

^a N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

4 O (R) 1 carboxyethyl d glucose; Lipopolysaccharide; O antigen gene cluster; O antigen structure; Shigella boydii type 17

Indexed keywords

EPIMERASE; FLIPPASE; GLUCOLACTILIC ACID; GLUCOSE DERIVATIVE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; O ANTIGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE; TRISACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE C4 EPIMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; METHYLATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MURAMIC ACIDS; O ANTIGENS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SHIGELLA BOYDII; TRISACCHARIDES;

SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA BOYDII;

EID: 33748310688     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.08.040     Document Type: Article

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