The wzz (cld) protein in Escherichia coli: amino acid sequence variation determines O-antigen chain length specificity.

doi:10.1128/JB.180.10.2670-2675.1998

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The wzz (cld) protein in Escherichia coli: amino acid sequence variation determines O-antigen chain length specificity.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 May 1998

Franco A V, Liu D, Reeves P R

Abstract excerpt

The O antigen is a polymer with a repeated unit. The chain length in most Escherichia coli strains has a modal value of 10 to 18 O units, but other strains have higher or lower modal values. wzz (cld/rol) mutants have a random chain length distribution, showing that the modal distribution is dete...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Bacterial Proteins
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins
Genes, Bacterial
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
O Antigens
Phylogeny
Sequence Alignment
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

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