Identification and characterization of two novel methyltransferase genes that determine the serotype 12-specific structure of glycopeptidolipids of Mycobacterium intracellulare

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1064-1071

  Nakata, Noboru ^a   Fujiwara, Nagatoshi ^b   Naka, Takashi ^c   Yano, Ikuya ^c   Kobayashi, Kazuo ^a   Maeda, Shinji ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Kiyose   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALDITOL; AMINOTRANSFERASE; GENOMIC DNA; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOPEPTIDOLIPID; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONE; COSMID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE CLUSTER; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE;

EID: 38649139099     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01370-07     Document Type: Article

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