Phosphoethanolamine is located at the 6-position and not at the 7-position of the distal heptose residue in the lipopolysaccharide from Neisseria meningitidis

Glycobiology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1436-1445

  St Michael, Frank ^a   Vinogradov, Evgeny ^a   Wenzel, Cory Q ^a   Mcintosh, Brendan ^a   Li, Jianjun ^a   Hoe, J Claire ^b   Richards, James C ^a   Cox, Andrew D ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core oligosaccharide; LPS NMR; Neisseria meningitidis; Phosphoethanolamine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ETHANOLAMINE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; METHYLATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS;

CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; ETHANOLAMINES; HEPTOSES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 71049151502     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwp117     Document Type: Article

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