A network-based approach to identify substrate classes of bacterial glycosyltransferases

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sánchez Rodríguez, Aminael ^a,d   Tytgat, Hanne L P ^a,b   Winderickx, Joris ^a   Vanderleyden, Jos ^a   Lebeer, Sarah ^a,b   Marchal, Kathleen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA PARTICULAR DE LOJA   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Bacterial glycosylation; Campylobacter jejuni; Glycosyltransferases; Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG; Network based prediction; Sequence based prediction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GUANINE; THYMINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; VALIDATION STUDY; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; METABOLISM; PROBABILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MARKOV CHAINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84901625957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-349     Document Type: Article

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