Identification of an O-acyltransferase gene (oacB) that mediates 3-and 4-O-acetylation of Rhamnose III in Shigella flexneri O antigens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1525-1531

  Wang, Jianping ^a   Knirel, Yuriy A ^b   Lan, Ruiting ^c   Senchenkova, Sof'ya N ^b   Luo, Xia ^a   Perepelov, Andrei V ^b   Wang, Yiting ^a   Shashkov, Alexander S ^b   Xu, Jianguo ^a   Sun, Qiangzheng ^a  

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b N D ZELINSKY INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; RHAMNOSE;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; O ACYLTRANSFERASE GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON;

ACETYLATION; ACYLTRANSFERASES; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; O ANTIGENS; RHAMNOSE; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 84896451273     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01393-13     Document Type: Article

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