Integration of minitransposons for expression of the Escherichia coli elt genes at a preferred site in Salmonella typhimurium identifies a novel putative fimbrial locus

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 122-126

  Brocchi, Marcelo ^a,b   Covone, M Giuseppina ^a   Palla, Emanuela ^a   Galeotti, Cesira L ^a  

^a Immunobiological Res Inst of Siena   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Expression; Fimbriae; LT enterotoxin; Minitransposons; Salmonella typhimurium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033039326     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050687     Document Type: Article

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