Genetic and structural analyses of Escherichia coli O107 and O117 O-antigens: RESEARCH ARTICLE

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-54

  Wang, Quan ^a,b   Perepelov, Andrei V ^c   Feng, Lu ^a,d,e   Knirel, Yuriy A ^c   Li, Yang ^a,b   Wang, Lei ^a,b,d,e  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

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

^d Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics   (China)

^e Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip   (China)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli O107; Escherichia coli O117; Lipopolysaccharide; O antigen

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; O ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION, MISSENSE; O ANTIGENS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 58149299610     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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