Residues located inside the escherichia coli FepE protein oligomer are essential for lipopolysaccharide O-antigen modal chain length regulation

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 701-714

  Tran, Elizabeth Ngoc Hoa ^a   Morona, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; FEPE PROTEIN; LEUCINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MUTANT PROTEIN; O ANTIGEN; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WZZB SF PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; O ANTIGENS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 84875754595     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.065631-0     Document Type: Article

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