Horizontally Acquired Glycosyltransferase Operons Drive Salmonellae Lipopolysaccharide Diversity

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Davies, Mark R ^a   Broadbent, Sarah E ^a,c   Harris, Simon R ^b   Thomson, Nicholas R ^b   van der Woude, Marjan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GTR GENE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA BONGORI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA BONGORI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84879665278     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003568     Document Type: Article

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