Genetic and molecular analyses reveal an evolutionary trajectory for glycan synthesis in a bacterial protein glycosylation system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9643-9648

  Børud, Bente ^a   Viburiene, Raimonda ^a   Hartley, Meredith D ^b   Paulsen, Berit Smestad ^a   Egge Jacobsen, Wolfgang ^a   Imperiali, Barbara ^b   Koomey, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Oligosaccharide biosynthesis; Type IV pili

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DISACCHARIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCAN; MONOSACCHARIDE; PGLA PROTEIN; PGLH PROTEIN; PYROPHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; COMMENSAL; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISACCHARIDES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 79958040865     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103321108     Document Type: Article

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