The biosynthesis and biological role of 6-deoxyheptose in the lipopolysaccharide O-antigen of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 424-447

  Ho, Nathan ^a   Kondakova, Anna N ^b   Knirel, Yuriy A ^b   Creuzenet, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 DEOXYHEPTOSE; CARBOHYDRATE; DEXTRO GLYCERO DEXTRO MANNOHEPTOSE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HEPTOSE; ISOMETHEPTENE; KOTOOCTONIC ACIS; LIGASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NOVOBIOCIN; O ANTIGEN; POLYMYXIN; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEIN DMHA; PROTEIN DMHB; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FLAGELLUM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CECUM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE DELETION; HEPTOSES; LIVER; LOCOMOTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NOVOBIOCIN; O ANTIGENS; POLYMYXIN B; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPLEEN; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 41049099763     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06163.x     Document Type: Article

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