Methylation of GPLs in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium avium

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 6792-6799

  Jeevarajah, Dharshini ^a   Patterson, John H ^a   Taig, Ellen ^a   Sargeant, Tobias ^b   McConville, Malcolm J ^a   Billman Jacobe, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 O METHYLTRANSFERASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FATTY ACID METHYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOPEPTIDOLIPID; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN MTFD; RHAMNOSE; RHAMNOSYL 3 O METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRIMETHYLRHAMNOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; LIPOGENESIS; METHYLATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; RHAMNOSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 4944254289     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.20.6792-6799.2004     Document Type: Article

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