Biosynthesis of mycobacterial arabinogalactan: Identification of a novel α(1→3) arabinofuranosyltransferase

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1191-1206

  Birch, Helen L ^a   Alderwick, Luke J ^a   Bhatt, Apoorva ^a   Rittmann, Doris ^b   Krumbach, Karin ^b   Singh, Albel ^a   Bai, Yu ^c   Lowary, Todd L ^c   Eggeling, Lothar ^b   Besra, Gurdyal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOFURANOSYLTRANSFERASE; ARABINOGALACTAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; WILD TYPE;

ACTINOMYCETALES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELL WALL; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GALACTANS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MYCOBACTERIUM;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 49249120075     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06354.x     Document Type: Article

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