Transposon-induced mutations in two loci of Listeria monocytogenes serotype 1/2a result in phage resistance and lack of N-acetylglucosamine in the teichoic acid of the cell wall

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 4793-4798

  Tran, Huyen L ^a   Fiedler, F ^b   Hodgson, D A ^c   Kathariou, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; RHAMNOSE; TEICHOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; SEROTYPE; TRANSPOSON;

LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0032701921     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.11.4793-4798.1999     Document Type: Article

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