Diversity of capsular polysaccharide synthesis gene clusters in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022028

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Diversity of capsular polysaccharide synthesis gene clusters in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Journal of biochemistry - 1 May 1998

Kolkman M A, van der Zeijst B A, Nuijten P J

Abstract excerpt

Streptococcus pneumoniae comprises 90 serotypes, each one having its own specific polysaccharide capsule. In order to explore the diversity of capsular polysaccharide synthesis (cps) gene clusters in S. pneumoniae, we performed cross-hybridizations between the 12 cps genes of S. pneumoniae seroty...

Topics

Bacterial Capsules
Carbohydrate Sequence
Chromatography, Thin Layer
DNA, Bacterial
Genes, Bacterial
Glycosyltransferases
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Hybridization
Serotyping
Streptococcus pneumoniae

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