Conserved-residue mutations in Wzy affect O-antigen polymerization and Wzz-mediated chain-length regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Islam, Salim T ^a   Huszczynski, Steven M ^a   Nugent, Timothy ^b   Gold, Alexander C ^a   Lam, Joseph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; O ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; O ANTIGENS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84890151093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03441     Document Type: Article

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