Shiga toxins even when different are encoded at identical positions in the genomes of related temperate bacteriophages

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 600-607

  Karch, H ^a   Schmidt, H ^a   Janetzki Mittmann, C ^a   Scheef, J ^a   Kroger M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; Genetic organization; Shiga toxin; Shigella dysenteriae

Indexed keywords

SHIGA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CODON; CYTOLYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHIGA TOXINS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIOPHAGE 933W; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE PA-2; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0033399924     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051122     Document Type: Article

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