Characterization of the O-antigen gene clusters of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the cryptic O-antigen gene cluster of Yersinia pestis shows that the plague bacillus is most closely related to and has evolved from Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype O:1b

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 316-330

  Skurnik, Mikael ^a   Peippo, Anne ^a   Ervelä, Elise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

O ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; O ANTIGENS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPING; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033925196     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01993.x     Document Type: Article

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