Export of O-specific lipopolysaccharide
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by IMR Press in Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark
- Vol. 8 (6) , s452-471
- https://doi.org/10.2741/1079
Abstract
The O antigen is the most surface-exposed component of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) molecule and its biogenesis involves several complex mechanisms not completely well understood. All of these mechanisms involve biochemical reactions that occur on the cytoplasmic side of the plasma membrane as well as several different translocation pathways that deliver the nascent O antigens in a glycolipid form to the periplasmic side of the plasma membrane. This article discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms operating in the biogenesis of the O-specific LPS.Keywords
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