Requirement of NMB0065 for connecting assembly and export of sialic acid capsular polysaccharides in Neisseria meningitidis

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 476-487

  Hobb, Rhonda I ^a   Tzeng, Yih Ling ^a   Choudhury, Biswa P ^c   Carlson, Russell W ^c   Stephens, David S ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE; CTRG PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; SIALIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL GENOME; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERUM BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BLOOD BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 77952580740     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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