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Haemophilus ducreyi Produces a Novel Sialyltransferase
1 Feb 1999
Abstract excerpt
Haemophilus ducreyi, the cause of the sexually transmitted disease chancroid produces a lipooligosaccharide (LOS) containing a terminal sialyl N-acetyllactosamine trisaccharide. Previously, we reported the identification and characterization of the N-acetylneuraminic acid cytidylsynthetase gene (neuA). Forty-nine base pairs downstream of the synthetase gene is an open reading frame (ORF) encoding a protein with a...
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