A structural comparison of lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis loci of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 strains

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Petzold, Markus ^a,b   Thürmer, Alexander ^a   Menzel, Susan ^a   Mouton, Johan W ^b   Heuner, Klaus ^c   Lück, Christian ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Legionella pneumophila; Lipopolysaccharide; Locus organization; Monoclonal antibody typing

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; O ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; TRANSPOSON; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84883709823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-198     Document Type: Article

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