Molecular cloning of the gene encoding the mosaic neurotoxin, composed of parts of botulinum neurotoxin types C1 and D, and PCR detection of this gene from Clostridium botulinum type C organisms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 662-667

  Moriishi, Kohji ^a   Koura, Minako ^a   Fujii, Nobuhiro ^b   Fujinaga, Yukako ^c   Inoue, Kaoru ^c   Syuto, Bunei ^d   Oguma, Keiji ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BOTULINUM TOXIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FRAGMENT; NEUROTOXIN; PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030028115     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.2.662-667.1996     Document Type: Article

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