Identification of three oligo-/polysaccharide-specific ligases in Yersinia enterocolitica

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-136

  Pinta, Elise ^a,b   Li, Zhilin ^a   Batzilla, Julia ^c   Pajunen, Maria ^d   Kasanen, Tiina ^a   Rabsztyn, Kamila ^a,e   Rakin, Alexander ^c   Skurnik, Mikael ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^f HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENTEROBACTERIAL COMMON ANTIGEN; LIGASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PENTASACCHARIDE; PROTEIN WAAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WAALOS GENE; WAALPS GENE; WAALXS GENE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; LIGASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA; NEGIBACTERIA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84155172277     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07918.x     Document Type: Article

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