Identification of a terminal rhamnopyranosyltransferase (RptA) involved in Corynebacterium glutamicum cell wall biosynthesis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4879-4887

  Birch, Helen L ^a   Alderwick, Luke J ^a   Rittmann, Doris ^b   Krumbach, Karin ^b   Etterich, Helga ^b   Grzegorzewicz, Anna ^c   McNeil, Michael R ^c   Eggeling, Lothar ^b   Besra, Gurdyal S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,5 LINKED ARABINOFURANOSYL DERIVATIVE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DECAPRENYL MONOPHOSPHORYLRHAMNOSE; FURAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE C; INTEGRAL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MYCOLYL ARABINOGALACTANPEPTIDOGLYCAN DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN NCG10543; RHAMNOPYRANOSYLTRANSFERASE; RHAMNOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RPTA GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM;

EID: 67749130740     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00296-09     Document Type: Article

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