A gene cluster closely related to type II secretion pathway operons of Gram-negative bacteria is located on the large plasmid of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 strains

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 265-272

  Schmidt, Herbert ^a   Henkel, Beatrix ^a   Karch, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EHEC type II secretion pathway; enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; plasmid pO157

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PLASMIDS;

EID: 0030993971     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00047-5     Document Type: Article

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