Sequence analysis of a new open reading frame located in the pathogenicity locus of Clostridium difficile strain 8864

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 241-248

  Song, Keang Peng ^a   Ow, Sui Eng ^a   Chang, Siao Yun ^a   Bai, Xin Lai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Recombinant DNA; Sequence analysis; Toxinogenic Clostridium difficile

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 0032732231     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00491-7     Document Type: Article

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