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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Single polysaccharide assembly protein that integrates polymerization, termination, and chain-length quality control.

Danielle M Williams, Olga G Ovchinnikova, Akihiko Koizumi, Iain L Mainprize, Matthew S Kimber, Todd L Lowary, Chris Whitfield

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Identification of a second glycoform of the clinically prevalent O1 antigen fromProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  7. Frontiers in microbiology · 2022
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  9. Lipoteichoic acid polymer length is determined by competition between free starter units.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  13. Lipopolysaccharide O-antigens-bacterial glycans made to measure.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Danielle M WilliamsDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1.
Olga G OvchinnikovaDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1.
Akihiko KoizumiAlberta Glycomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2R3.
Iain L MainprizeDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1.
Matthew S KimberDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1.
Todd L LowaryAlberta Glycomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2R3.
Chris WhitfieldDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1; cwhitfie@uoguelph.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-5267-7027
University of Guelph · CAUniversity of Alberta · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are essential outer membrane glycolipids in most gram-negative bacteria. Biosynthesis of the O-antigenic polysaccharide (OPS) component of LPS follows one of three widely distributed strategies, and similar processes are used to assemble other bacterial surface glycoconjugates. This study focuses on the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter-dependent pathway, where glycans are completed on undecaprenyl diphosphate carriers at the cytosol:membrane interface, before export by the ABC transporter. We describe

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Amino Acid SequenceATP-Binding Cassette TransportersBacterial ProteinsBiosynthetic PathwaysCarbohydrate SequenceEnterobacteriaceaeGlycosyltransferasesLipopolysaccharidesMolecular StructureO AntigensPolymerizationPolysaccharidesQuality ControlSequence Homology, Amino AcidATP-Binding Cassette TransportersBacterial ProteinsGlycosyltransferasesLipopolysaccharidesO AntigensPolysaccharidesglycan biosynthesisglycosyltransferaseslipopolysaccharidesmicrobial glycobiologymolecular ruler

Identifiers

PMID28137848
PMCPMC5321029
OpenAlexW2582518578

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