Secondary cell wall polysaccharides from Bacillus cereus strains G9241, 03BB87 and 03BB102 causing fatal pneumonia share similar glycosyl structures with the polysaccharides from Bacillus anthracis

Glycobiology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 934-948

  Forsberg, L Scott ^a   Choudhury, Biswa ^b   Leoff, Christine ^a   Marston, Chung K ^c   Hoffmaster, Alex R ^c   Saile, Elke ^c   Quinn, Conrad P ^c   Kannenberg, Elmar L ^a   Carlson, Russell W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus anthracis; Bacillus cereus; cell wall; polysaccharide; structure

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; TRISACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DERIVATIZATION; GLYCOSYLATION; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOGENICITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY CELL WALL POLYSACCHARIDE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; CELL WALL; CROSS REACTIONS; EPITOPES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PNEUMONIA; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS;

EID: 79958777474     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwr026     Document Type: Article

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