Structural and genetic evidence that the Escherichia coli O148 O antigen is the precursor of the Shigella dysenteriae 1 O antigen and identification of a glucosyltransferase gene

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 139-147

  Feng, Lu ^a   Perepelov, Andrei V ^b   Zhao, Guang ^a   Shevelev, Sergei D ^b   Wang, Quan ^a   Senchenkova, Sof'ya N ^b   Shashkov, Alexander S ^b   Geng, Yunqi ^a   Reeves, Peter R ^c   Knirel, Yuriy A ^b   Wang, Lei ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; O ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 33846324772     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/001107-0     Document Type: Article

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