Identification and characterization of a novel genomic island integrated at selC in locus of enterocyte effacement-negative, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 6863-6873

  Schmidt, H ^a   Zhang, W L ^a   Hemmrich, U ^a   Jelacic, S ^a   Brunder, W ^a   Tarr, P I ^a   Dobrindt, U ^a   Hacker, J ^a   Karch, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; PEPSIN A; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SHIGA TOXIN; VITAMIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; RECOMBINANT GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ENTEROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SHIGA TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034778453     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.11.6863-6873.2001     Document Type: Article

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