Structural characterization of closely related O-antigen lipopolysaccharide (LPS) chain length regulators

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 15696-15705

  Kalynych, Sergei ^a   Yao, Deqiang ^b   Magee, James ^a   Cygler, Miroslaw ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; INNER MEMBRANES; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; O-ANTIGEN; OCTAMERS; OLIGOMERIC STATE; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROTOMERS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; TRANSMEMBRANE HELICES; WILD TYPES;

AMINO ACIDS; CHAIN LENGTH; OLIGOMERS; POLYMERS;

ANTIGENS;

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; DNA POLYMERASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MUTANT PROTEIN; O ANTIGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE COPOLYMERASE; POLYSACCHARIDE COPOLYMERASE 1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WZZ PROTEIN; WZZB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; O ANTIGENS; PERIPLASMIC PROTEINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 84860860468     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.354837     Document Type: Article

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