Structure determination of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 capsular polysaccharide

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 513-525

  Van Calsteren, Marie Rose ^a   Gagnon, Fleur ^a   Lacouture, Sonia ^b   Fittipaldi, Nahuel ^b   Gottschalk, Marcello ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical modification; Mass spectrometry (MS); Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR); Repeating unit sequence

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE CONFIGURATION; BOROHYDRIDE REDUCTIONS; CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDES; CHEMICALLY MODIFIED; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCUS; METHYLATION ANALYSIS; MILD ACID HYDROLYSIS; MODIFIED PRODUCTS; PERIODATE OXIDATION; REPEATING UNIT; REPEATING UNIT SEQUENCE; SEROTYPES; SIALIC ACIDS; SMITH DEGRADATION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS SEROTYPE 2; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION;

ACIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RESONANCE; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BORON; GALACTOSE; RHAMNOSE; SIALIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; HYDROLYSIS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PURIFICATION; REDUCTION; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B'; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS;

EID: 77952718546     PISSN: 08298211     EISSN: 12086002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/O09-170     Document Type: Article

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