Comparative sequence analysis of the plasmid-encoded regulator of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 5553-5564

  Okeke, I N ^a   Borneman, J A ^a   Shin, S ^a   Mellies, J L ^a   Quinn, L E ^a   Kaper, J B ^a  

^a University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN BFPA; PROTEIN LEE1; PROTEIN PER; PROTEIN PERA; PROTEIN PERB; PROTEIN PERC; SEDECAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM PILUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034860663     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.9.5553-5564.2001     Document Type: Article

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