Neisseria gonorrhoeae O-linked pilin glycosylation: Functional analyses define both the biosynthetic pathway and glycan structure

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 607-624

  Aas, Finn Erik ^a   Vik, Åshild ^a   Vedde, John ^a   Koomey, Michael ^a   Egge Jacobsen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DISACCHARIDE; GLYCAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPID; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PILIN; PYROPHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TRISACCHARIDE;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; GLYCOSYLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYSACCHARIDES; TRISACCHARIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 34447577871     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05806.x     Document Type: Article

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