The Wzy O-antigen polymerase of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis O:2a has a dependence on the Wzz chain-length determinant for efficient polymerization

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 349, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-170

  Kenyon, Johanna J ^a   Reeves, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chain length determination; Modality; O antigen processing; Polymerization

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL POLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; O ANTIGEN; PROTEIN WZY; PROTEIN WZZ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

CHAIN-LENGTH DETERMINATION; MODALITY; O-ANTIGEN PROCESSING; POLYMERIZATION;

GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC LOCI; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS; POLYMERIZATION; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84888036827     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12311     Document Type: Letter

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