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Study of free oligosaccharides derived from the bacterial N-glycosylation pathway.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Sept 2009
Nothaft Harald, Liu Xin, McNally David J, Li Jianjun, Szymanski Christine M
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The food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni is one of the leading causes of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide and the most frequent antecedent in neuropathies such as the Guillain-Barré and Miller Fisher syndromes. C. jejuni was demonstrated to possess an N-linked protein glycosylation pathway that adds a conserved heptasaccharide to >40 periplasmic and membrane proteins. Recently, we showed that C. jejuni...
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