The Mycobacterium avium complex gtfTB gene encodes a glucosyltransferase required for the biosynthesis of serovar 8-specific glycopeptidolipid

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7918-7924

  Miyamoto, Yuji ^a   Mukai, Tetsu ^a   Maeda, Yumi ^a   Kai, Masanori ^a   Naka, Takashi ^b   Yano, Ikuya ^b   Makino, Masahiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Japan BCG Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4,6 O (1 CARBOXYETHYLIDENE) 3 O METHYL GLUCOSE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOPEPTIDOLIPID; PROTEIN GTFTB; RHAMNOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX (MAC); MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 57349117843     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00911-08     Document Type: Article

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