Characterization and acceptor preference of a soluble meningococcal group C polysialyltransferase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1576-1582

  Peterson, Dwight C ^a   Arakere, Gayathri ^b   Vionnet, Justine ^a   McCarthy, Pumtiwitt C ^a   Vann, Willie F ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSIALIC ACID; POLYSIALYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT DNA; SIALYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; HOST RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP C; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIALIC ACIDS; SIALYLTRANSFERASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 79952794461     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00924-10     Document Type: Article

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