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Yersinia enterocolitica lipopolysaccharide: genetics and virulence
1Dept of Medical Microbiology, Turku University, Finland.
Trends in Microbiology
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
The O side chain (O antigen) of the lipopolysaccharide of Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:3 has been shown to be a virulence factor. The genes directing the biosynthesis of the O antigen have been cloned, sequenced and characterized. Like the expression of most of the virulence factors of Y. enterocolitica, O-antigen expression is temperature regulated.