Identification of a novel genetic locus that is required for in vitro adhesion of a clinical isolate of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli to epithelial cells

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 275-288

  Nicholls, Larissa ^a   Grant, Travis H ^a   Robins Browne, Roy M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; INTIMIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL AGGREGATION; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033985395     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01690.x     Document Type: Article

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