Functional characterization of UDP-Glucose: Undecaprenyl-phosphate glucose-1-phosphate transferases of Escherichia coli and Caulobacter crescentus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2646-2657

  Patel, Kinnari B ^a   Toh, Evelyn ^b   Fernandez, Ximena B ^a   Hanuszkiewicz, Anna ^a   Hardy, Gail G ^b   Brun, Yves V ^b   Bernards, Mark A ^a   Valvano, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; COLANIC ACID; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPID A; O ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GALACTOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MUTATION; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (PHOSPHATE GROUP ACCEPTOR); POLYSACCHARIDES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 84861371522     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06052-11     Document Type: Article

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