Identification of trehalose dimycolate (cord factor) in Mycobacterium leprae

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3345-3350

  Kai, Masanori ^a   Fujita, Yukiko ^b   Maeda, Yumi ^a   Nakata, Noboru ^a   Izumi, Shinzo ^c   Yano, Ikuya ^b   Makino, Masahiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Kiyose   (Japan)

^c AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry; Mycobacterium leprae; Thin layer chromatography; Trehalose 6,6 dimycolate; Trehalose 6 monomycolate

Indexed keywords

ALPHA MYCOLATE; CORD FACTOR; GLYCOLIPID; KETO MYCOLATE; PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID I; TREHALOSE 6 MYCOLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CORD FACTORS; ESTERS; GLYCOLIPIDS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ARMADILLO; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 34447255021     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.06.029     Document Type: Article

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