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O-antigen structure of Shigella flexneri serotype Yv and effect of the lpt-O gene variation on phosphoethanolamine modification of S. flexneri O-antigens.
Glycobiology - 1 Apr 2013
Knirel Yuriy A, Lan Ruiting, Senchenkova Sof'ya N, Wang Jianping, Shashkov Alexander S, Wang Yan, Perepelov Andrei V, Xiong Yanwen, Xu Jianguo, Sun Qiangzheng
Abstract excerpt
Shigella flexneri is the major human pathogen causing shigellosis. O-antigens of all S. flexneri serotypes (except for serotype 6) share the →2)-α-l-Rhap(III)-(1 → 2)-α-l-Rhap(II)-(1 → 3)-α-l-Rhap(I)-(1 → 3)-β-d-GlcpNAc-(1→ basic O-unit, whereas differences between the serotypes are conferred by phage-encoded glucosylation and/or O-acetylation at various positions. Recently, in serotype X and 4a variants called...
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