Chromosome of the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7; Comparative analysis with K-12 MG1655 revealed the acquisition of a large amount of foreign DNAs

DNA Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 361-368

  Ohnishi, Makoto ^a   Tanaka, Chiho ^b   Kuhara, Satoru ^b   Ishii, Kazuo ^c   Hattori, Masahiro ^c,e   Kurokawa, Ken ^d   Yasunaga, Teruo ^d   Makino, Kozo ^d   Shinagawa, Hideo ^d   Murata, Takahiro ^a   Nakayama, Keisuke ^a   Terawaki, Yoshiro ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromosome enlargement; Enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7; Horizontal gene transfer; Physical map; rrn operon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; VEROTOXIN 1; VEROTOXIN 2;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINKAGE (GENETICS); REPLICATION ORIGIN; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033621297     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/6.6.361     Document Type: Article

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