Genetic organization and functional analysis of the otn DNA essential for cell-wall polysaccharide synthesis in Vibrio cholerae O139

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 799-811

  Bik, Elisabeth M ^a   Bunschoten, Annelies E ^a   Willems, Rob J L ^a   Chang, Annie C Y ^b   Mooi, Frits R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; O ANTIGENS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEROTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0029899915     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02518.x     Document Type: Article

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