Partial redundancy in the synthesis of the D-arabinose incorporated in the cell wall arabinan of Corynebacterineae

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2315-2326

  Meniche, Xavier ^a   de Sousa d'Auria, Célia ^a,b   Van der Rest, Bénoit ^a,d   Bhamidi, Suresh ^c   Huc, Emile ^a   Huang, Hairong ^c   De Paepe, Diane ^a   Tropis, Marielle ^a   McNeil, Mike ^c   Daffé, Mamadou ^a   Houssin, Christine ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINAN; ARABINOGALACTAN; ARABINOSE; CARBOHYDRATE; DECAPRENYLPHOSPHORYL BETA DEXTRO RIBOSE; DECAPRENYLPHOSPHORYL DEXTRO ARABINOSE; MYCOLIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RHAMNOSE; TREHALOSE;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; EPIMERIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; IN VIVO STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CELL WALL; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GALACTANS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 51149101604     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/016378-0     Document Type: Article

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