A novel genetic island of meningitic Escherichia coli K1 containing the ibeA invasion gene (GimA): Functional annotation and carbon-source-regulated invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells

Functional and Integrative Genomics

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 312-322

  Huang, Sheng He ^a   Chen, Yu Hua ^b   Kong, Guoying ^a   Chen, Steven H ^a   Besemer, John ^c   Borodovsky, Mark ^c   Jong, Ambrose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial cells; Genetic island; Invasion; Meningitis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; CYCLIC AMP; CYTOSINE; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE; GUANINE; IBEA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CATABOLISM; CELL INVASION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MENINGITIS; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STIMULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GALACTOSE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MENINGITIS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0034761811     PISSN: 1438793X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101420100039     Document Type: Article

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