Collagenase gene (colA) is located in the 3'-flanking region of the perfringolysin O (pfoA) locus in Clostridium perfringens

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 155-159

  Ohtani, Kaori ^a   Bando, Mayumi ^a   Swe, Tint ^a   Banu, Sayera ^a   Oe, Misari ^a   Hayashi, Hideo ^a   Shimizu, Tohru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

galactosidase; arginine deiminase; Clostridium perfringens; collagenase; genomic structure; perfringolysin O

Indexed keywords

ARGININE DEIMINASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COLLAGENASE;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLLAGENASES; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031027130     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00472-7     Document Type: Article

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