Capsules of streptococcus pneumoniae and other bacteria: Paradigms for polysaccharide biosynthesis and regulation

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2011, Pages 563-581

  Yother, Janet ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain length; Glycosyltransferases; Synthase; Tyrosine kinase; Undecaprenyl; Wzy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSIDE; SYNTHETASE;

BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80053231916     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.62.081307.162944     Document Type: Review

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