Complete nucleotide sequence and molecular characterization of hemolysin II gene from Bacillus cereus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-14

  Baida, Gleb ^a,b   Budarina, Zhanna I ^a   Kuzmin, Nikolai P ^a   Solonin, Alexander S ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; DNA sequence; Hemolysin II; Hly II

Indexed keywords

CYTOLYSIN; DNA FRAGMENT; HEMOLYSIN; LEUKOCIDIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LEUKOCIDINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032884599     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00455-3     Document Type: Article

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