FEBS Letters
Volume 579, Issue 1 , Pages 18-24 , 3 January 2005

Structure of the Bordetella trematum LPS O-chain subunit

Edited by Gerrit van Meer

  • Evgeny Vinogradov

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council, 100 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6
    • ,
  • Martine Caroff

      Affiliations

    • Equipe “Endotoxines”, UMR 8619, IBBMC, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: +33 1 69 85 37 15

Received 26 August 2004 ,Revised 12 November 2004 ,Accepted 12 November 2004.

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PII: S0014-5793(04)01418-8

doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.11.040

FEBS Letters
Volume 579, Issue 1 , Pages 18-24 , 3 January 2005