Evidence for horizontal transfer from Streptococcus to Escherichia coli of the KfiD gene encoding the K5-specific UDP-glucose dehydrogenase

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 432-436

  Muñoz, Rosario ^a   García, Ernesto ^a   López, Rubens ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Capsular polysaccharides; Lateral gene transfer; Pneumococcus; UDP glucose dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PNEUMOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031979098     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006322     Document Type: Article

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