Article
Nucleotide sequence and genetic analysis of the neuD and neuB genes in region 2 of the polysialic acid gene cluster of Escherichia coli K1.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 1995
Annunziato P W, Wright L F, Vann W F, Silver R P
Abstract excerpt
The K1 capsular polysaccharide, a polymer of sialic acid, is an important virulence determinant of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli. The genes responsible for the synthesis and expression of the polysialic acid capsule of E. coli K1 are located on the 17-kb kps gene cluster, which is f...
Topics
- Acetyltransferases
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Capsules
- Base Sequence
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Mutation
- Oxo-Acid-Lyases
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sialic Acids