Regulation of the Shiga-like toxin II operon in Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 495-502

  Mühldorfer, Inge ^a   Hacker, Jörg ^a   Keusch, Gerald T ^b   Acheson, David W ^b   Tschäpe, Helmut ^c   Kane, Anne V ^d   Ritter, Angelika ^a   Ölschläger, Tobias ^a   Donohue Rolfe, Arthur ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d Ctr Gastroenterol Res A   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CYTOTOXICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; STRUCTURAL GENE; TOXEMIA;

EID: 0030035066     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.2.495-502.1996     Document Type: Article

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