Genetic organization and heterogeneity of the iceA locus of Helicobacter pylori

Gene

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 59-68

  Figueiredo, Céu ^a,b   Quint, Wim G V ^a   Sanna, Ricardo ^a   Sablon, Erwin ^c   Donahue, John P ^d   Xu, Qing ^d   Miller, Geraldine G ^d   Peek Jr , Richard M ^d,e   Blaser, Martin J ^d,e   Van Doorn, Leen Jan ^a  

^a Delft Diagnostic Laboratory   (Netherlands)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

^c INNOGENETICS   (Belgium)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial virulence; Genotyping; PCR

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034603794     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00054-8     Document Type: Article

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