Structure of the Shigella dysenteriae haem transport locus and its phylogenetic distribution in enteric bacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1139-1152

  Wyckoff, Elizabeth E ^a   Duncan, Donald ^a   Torres, Alfredo G ^a   Mills, Melody ^a,b   Maase, Kamiel ^a   Payne, Shelley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HEME; IRON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERIC BACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031799423     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00873.x     Document Type: Article

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