Structural and genetic evidence for the close relationship between Escherichia coli O71 and Salmonella enterica O28 O-antigens

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-169

  Hu, Bo ^a,b   Perepelov, Andrei V ^c   Liu, Bin ^a,b   Shevelev, Sergei D ^c   Guo, Dan ^a,b   Senchenkova, Sof'ya N ^c   Shashkov, Alexander S ^c   Feng, Lu ^a,b   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

Escherichia coli; O antigen gene cluster; O antigen structure; PCR assay; Salmonella enterica

Indexed keywords

3 ACETAMIDO 3,6 DIDEOXYGLUCOSE; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE DERIVATIVE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; O ANTIGEN; RHAMNOSE; TETRASACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O71; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA O28; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SYNTENY;

CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

EID: 77953603459     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2010.00676.x     Document Type: Article

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