Structure of a phosphoethanolamine-containing O-polysaccharide of Citrobacter freundii strain PCM 1443 from serogroup O39 and its relatedness to the Klebsiella pneumoniae O1 polysaccharide

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-64

  Katzenellenbogen, Ewa ^a   Toukach, Philip V ^b   Kocharova, Nina A ^b   Korzeniowska Kowal, Agnieszka ^a   Gamian, Andrzej ^a,c   Shashkov, Alexander S ^b   Knirel, Yuriy A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

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

^c WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Citrobacter freundii; Galactan; Lipopolysaccharide; O polysaccharide structure; Serological specificity

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEXTRO GALACTOPYRANOSE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BETA DEXTRO GALACTOFURANOSE; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; GALACTAN; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LINEAR SYSTEM; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; GALACTANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; O ANTIGENS; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES;

EID: 43349101351     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00396.x     Document Type: Article

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