Analysis of the botulinum neurotoxin type F gene clusters in proteolytic and nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium barati

Current Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 262-268

  East, Alison K ^a   Bhandari, Manju ^a   Hielm, Sebastian ^a,b   Collins, Matthew D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; HEMAGGLUTININ;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BOTULINUM TOXINS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM BARATII; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031718412     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900376     Document Type: Article

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