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Molecular characterization of the complete 23F capsular polysaccharide locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Journal of bacteriology ·Vol. 180 ·No. 19 ·1998-10-00 ·Pages 5273-8

Ramirez M, Tomasz A

Abstract

The complete DNA sequence of the capsular locus 23F of Streptococcus pneumoniae is presented. The 18.6-kb cps23f locus is composed of 18 open reading frames flanked at the 5' and 3' ends by the genes dexB and aliA, an arrangement similar to those of some of the other identified cps loci.

MeSH Terms
Bacterial Capsules/biosynthesis Bacterial Proteins Carrier Proteins/genetics Chromosome Mapping Cloning, Molecular DNA, Bacterial/analysis Genes, Bacterial/genetics Lipoproteins/genetics Molecular Sequence Data Open Reading Frames/genetics Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Streptococcus pneumoniae/genetics
Chemicals
AliA protein, Streptococcus pneumoniae Bacterial Proteins Carrier Proteins DNA, Bacterial Lipoproteins
Authors & Affiliations
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Ramirez M
The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Tomasz A
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of bacteriology
Abbr.
J Bacteriol
ISSN
0021-9193
DOI
10.1128/JB.180.19.5273-5278.1998
Published
1998-10-00
Pages
5273-8
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
2985120R
PMCID
PMC107572
Subset
IM
Grants
NIAID NIH HHS · R01AI37275 · United States
Databases
GENBANK
AF057294
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