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Biosynthesis of O-antigens: genes and pathways involved in nucleotide sugar precursor synthesis and O-antigen assembly.
Carbohydrate research - 14 Nov 2003
Samuel Gabrielle, Reeves Peter
Abstract excerpt
The O-antigen is an important component of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. It is a repeat unit polysaccharide and consists of a number of repeats of an oligosaccharide, the O-unit, which generally has between two and six sugar residues. O-Antigens are extremely variable, the variation lying in the nature, order and linkage of the different sugars within the polysaccharide. The genes involved in...
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