Glycoproteomics: A powerful tool for characterizing the diverse glycoforms of bacterial pilins and flagellins

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1307-1313

  Hitchen, Paul G ^a   Twigger, Katie ^a   Valiente, Esmeralda ^b   Langdon, Rebecca H ^b   Wren, Brendan W ^a,b   Dell, Anne ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterium; Flagellin; Glycoproteomics; Glycosylation; Mass spectrometry; Pilin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FLAGELLIN; GLYCAN; MONOSACCHARIDE; PILIN; SIALIC ACID;

GENOMICS; GLYCOSYLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW;

FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FLAGELLIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEOMICS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77957267813     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0381307     Document Type: Review

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