Biochemical characterization of the CDP-D-arabinitol biosynthetic pathway in Streptococcus pneumoniae 17F

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1868-1874

  Wang, Quan ^a,b   Xu, Yanli ^a,b   Perepelov, Andrei V ^c   Knirel, Yuriy A ^c   Reeves, Peter R ^d   Shashkov, Alexander S ^c   Guo, Xi ^a,b   Ding, Peng ^a,b   Feng, Lu ^a,e,f  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics   (China)

^f Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINITOL; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CATION; PROTEIN ABPA; PROTEIN ABPB; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLULOSE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUGAR ALCOHOLS;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84861213697     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06487-11     Document Type: Article

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