Identification of the two glycosyltransferase genes responsible for the difference between Escherichia coli O107 and O117 O-antigens

Glycobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 281-287

  Wang, Quan ^a,b,c   Perepelov, Andrei V ^d   Wen, Liuqing ^a,c   Shashkov, Alexander S ^d   Wang, Xiaoting ^a,e   Guo, Xi ^a,b   Knirel, Yuriy A ^d   Wang, Lei ^a,e,f  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

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

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

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

Author keywords

E. coli O107; E. coli O117; glycosyltransferase; O antigen

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; O ANTIGEN; O107 ANTIGEN; O117 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WCLY GENE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSAMINE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84862910745     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwr137     Document Type: Article

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