Characterization of the fucosylation pathway in the biosynthesis of glycopeptidolipids from Mycobacterium avium complex

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5515-5522

  Miyamoto, Yuji ^a   Mukai, Tetsu ^a   Maeda, Yumi ^a   Nakata, Noboru ^a   Kai, Masanori ^a   Naka, Takashi ^b   Yano, Ikuya ^b   Makino, Masahiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Kiyose   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPID; MANNOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; RHAMNOSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUCOSYLATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GTFD GENE; LIPOGENESIS; MDHTA GENE; MERA GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; RTFA GENE; SEROTYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELL MEMBRANE; FUCOSE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOLIPIDS; MANNOSE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RHAMNOSE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 34547619242     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00344-07     Document Type: Article

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