Identification and characterization of ispA, a Shigella flexneri chromosomal gene essential for normal in vivo cell division and intercellular spreading

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 599-609

  Mac Síomóin, Ruairí A ^a   Nakata, Noboru ^b   Murai, Tatuo ^c   Yoshikawa, Masanosuke ^a   Tsuji, Hiroyuki ^a   Sasakawa, Chihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b National Institute Leprosy Research   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIVISION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0030070133     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.405941.x     Document Type: Article

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