Locus of enterocyte effacement from Citrobacter rodentium: Sequence analysis and evidence for horizontal transfer among attaching and effacing pathogens

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 6323-6335

  Deng, W ^a   Li, Y ^a   Vallance, B A ^a   Finlay, B B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER RODENTIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTESTINE CELL; MICROVILLUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0034823881     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.10.6323-6335.2001     Document Type: Article

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