Biochemical characterization of WbdN, a β1,3-glucosyltransferase involved in O-antigen synthesis in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157

Glycobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1092-1102

  Gao, Yin ^a   Liu, Bin ^b   Strum, Scott ^a   Schutzbach, John S ^a   Druzhinina, Tatyana N ^c   Utkina, Natalia S ^c   Torgov, Vladimir I ^c   Danilov, Leonid L ^c   Veselovsky, Vladimir V ^c   Vlahakis, Jason Z ^a   Szarek, Walter A ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Brockhausen, Inka ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Escherichia coli O157; Gastrointestinal infections; Glucosyltransferase; Substrate specificity; WbdN

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; O ANTIGEN; POLYHISTIDINE TAG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WBDN PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; O ANTIGENS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84863186250     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cws081     Document Type: Article

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