Structure of the O-antigen of Salmonella O66 and the genetic basis for similarity and differences between the closely related O-antigens of Escherichia coli O166 and Salmonella O66

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1642-1649

  Liu, Bin ^a,b   Perepelov, Andrei V ^c   Li, Dan ^a,b   Senchenkova, Sof'ya N ^c   Han, Yanfang ^a,b   Shashkov, Alexander S ^c   Feng, Lu ^a,b,d   Knirel, Yuriy A ^c   Wang, Lei ^a,b,d,e  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics   (China)

^c N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip   (China)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN;

ACETYLATION; ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DEACETYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; SALMONELLA; SEROTYPING; WZY GENE;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; OPEN READING FRAMES; SALMONELLA;

EID: 77953210133     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.037325-0     Document Type: Article

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