The complete nucleotide sequence of ΦCTX, a cytotoxin-converting phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Implications for phage evolution and horizontal gene transfer via bacteriophages

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 399-419

  Nakayama, Keisuke ^a   Kanaya, Shigehiko ^b   Ohnishi, Makoto ^a   Terawaki, Yoshiro ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHROMOSOME; CODON USAGE; COLIPHAGE; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID; CYTOTOXINS; DNA, VIRAL; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PHAGES; PYOCINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

EID: 0032950921     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01158.x     Document Type: Article

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