Article
Genetic and chemical characterization of a mutant that disrupts synthesis of the lipopolysaccharide core tetrasaccharide in Rhizobium leguminosarum.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 1996
Allaway D, Jeyaretnam B, Carlson R W, Poole P S
Abstract excerpt
A 2-kb region that complements the Tn5-derived lipopolysaccharide (LPS) rough mutant Rhizobium leguminosarum RU301 was sequenced. Two open reading frames (ORFs) were identified. The first ORF (lpcA) is homologous to a family of bacterial sugar transferases involved in LPS core tetrasaccharide biosynthesis. ORF2 (lpcB), in which Tn5 transposed, has no significant homology to any DNA in the GenBank-EMBL databases....
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Bacterial
- Hexosyltransferases
- Lipopolysaccharides
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Rhizobium leguminosarum
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Transferases