A group of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica O antigens sharing a common backbone

Microbiology

Volumn 153, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2159-2167

  Wang, Wei ^a   Perepelov, Andrei V ^b   Feng, Lu ^a   Shevelev, Sergei D ^b   Wang, Quan ^a   Senchenkova, Sof'ya N ^b   Han, Weiqing ^a   Li, Yayue ^a   Shashkov, Alexander S ^b   Knirel, Yuriy A ^b   Reeves, Peter R ^c   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

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DEOXY SUGARS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; O ANTIGENS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 34447522097     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/004192-0     Document Type: Article

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