Phosphorylation of the lipid A region of meningococcal lipopolysaccharide: identification of a family of transferases that add phosphoethanolamine to lipopolysaccharide.

A gene, NMB1638, with homology to the recently characterized gene encoding a phosphoethanolamine transferase, lpt-3, has been identified from the Neisseria meningitidis genome sequence and was found to be present in all meningococcal strains examined. Homology comparison with other database sequence...

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Auteurs principaux: Cox, A, Wright, J, Li, J, Hood, D, Moxon, E, Richards, J
Format: Journal article
Langue:English
Publié: 2003