Complete tetrasaccharide repeat unit biosynthesis of the immunomodulatory bacteroides fragilis capsular polysaccharide A

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 92-101

  Sharma, Sunita ^a   Erickson, Katelyn M ^a   Troutman, Jerry M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE A; DISACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE; ISOPRENE; ISOPRENOID; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PYRUVIC ACID; PYRUVYLTRANSFERASE; TETRASACCHARIDE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; POLYSACCHARIDE PYRUVYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CYTOLYSIS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE CLUSTER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; KINETIC PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; ALDEHYDE-KETONE TRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 85013718749     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00931     Document Type: Article

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