Shigella flexneri O-antigens revisited: Final elucidation of the O-acetylation profiles and a survey of the O-antigen structure diversity

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 201-210

  Perepelov, Andrei V ^a   Shekht, Maria E ^b   Liu, Bin ^c   Shevelev, Sergei D ^a   Ledov, Vladimir A ^b   Senchenkova, Sof'ya N ^a   L'vov, Vyacheslav L ^b   Shashkov, Alexander S ^a   Feng, Lu ^c   Aparin, Petr G ^b   Wang, Lei ^c   Knirel, Yuriy A ^a  

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

^b ATV D TEAM Enterprise   (Russian Federation)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

O acetylation; O antigen diversity; O polysaccharide structure; Serological classification; Shigella flexneri

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEROLOGY; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ACETYLATION; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; O ANTIGENS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 84867672999     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2012.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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