Functional and genetic analysis of regulatory regions of coliphage H- 19B: Location of shiga-like toxin and lysis genes suggest a role for phage functions in toxin release

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1255-1267

  Neely, Melody N ^a   Friedman, David I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; COLIPHAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIOPHAGE 933W; BACTERIOPHAGE H-19B; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031746606     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00890.x     Document Type: Article

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