Amino acid 310 determines the donor substrate specificity of serogroup W-135 and y capsule polymerases of Neisseria meningitidis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 960-971

  Claus, Heike ^b,c   Stummeyer, Katharina ^b,d   Batzilla, Julia ^a,c   Mühlenhoff, Martina ^d   Vogel, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b These Authors Contribute Equally to This Work ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCINE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROLINE; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; DNA, BACTERIAL; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP W-135; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP Y; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 60349085697     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06580.x     Document Type: Article

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