Identification and molecular characterization of a novel Salmonella enteritidis pathogenicity islet encoding an ABC transporter

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 791-805

  Pattery, Theresa ^a   Hernalsteens, Jean Pierre ^a   De Greve, Henri ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERMEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROLASES; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; LIPOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPING; TRANSFERRIN-BINDING PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERITIDIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS;

EID: 0032811904     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01526.x     Document Type: Article

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